174 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
46. A. CEICNA “CAS AV :L: CVPFAL: PIL Xo 7-« 
Translit.—rva * cineucikara * cira no bapi * sa chipitu u rasa tu usa X °° * 
Basque—ara Sinhetsikara Zeru en bapi so chipitu hau eritsa du atso X *** 
Translat.—see Sinhetsikara Zeru of father behold little one this esteems has 
voyen GG 
Freely—Behold Sinhetsikara, Zeru’s father, (how) this little one he honours ; 
aged X* °° 
The word ara, with, emen, here, and an, there, makes the equiva- 
lents of voici and voil’. Another word for look is so, as a verb 
so-egin. The proper name Sinhetsikara is capable of translation, 
being Sinhetskor, the believer, or Sinhetsgarri, the pledge. I shall 
afterwards give.a good reason for rendering the girl’s name by Zeru, 
heaven, a common element in Basque as in American Indian names. 
It is in the genitive, like hunen in 42. The Etruscan word bapi, 
father, is now only used by Basque children, being replaced generally 
by aita. It is probably the same word as babe, pabe, a support. The 
word for a little one is still chipi, and chipita means infancy. Haw 
seems to have demonstrative power. The word rendered rid by so 
many Etruscologists, and on which so many theories have been 
founded, is a compound of dw has, or da is, and atso. The latter 
word now means old and relates only to women, but in Etruscan 
times it seems to have been generally applied. Unhappily the 
inscription is imperfect, so that the confirmation of the deceased’s 
childhood is wanting. It is also hard to tell whether Sinhetsikara 
or chipitu is the subject of the verb.” 
caput, German kopf, Erse ceap, shew the same root, equally with the Japanese kobe and Ieubi. 
The Etruscan word was probably of the same form as the Japanese, but in modern Basque has 
degenerated to jabe. 
4 The Sinhetsgarri family is that which has, on apparently incontestible evidence, been 
regarded as the Licinian gens, in which Caecina was a surname. One objection to this is that 
Licinius, so far as I know, never accompanies this name on the monuments. Again, Ceiena 
and Caecina, although somewhat alike, are not the same words, the vowel i in the latter being 
long. And Caecina, Cecina, Sisenna, are purely Basque words, being forms of Zuzena, the 
upright, just, equitable. The name appears as far back as 1130 B.C. in the form Sihusuni, in 
the title of a Hittite king of Commagene, Sarupin-Sihusuni: Trans. Soc. Bib. Archzol., vol. 
VII., p. 291; subCiti-Anteru. The apparently incontestible evidence is that presented by six 
inscriptions, 308-313 in Fabretti, three of which are in Etruscan, and three in Latin characters. 
They are as follow: 
( B08. 2) -VCBICNA: CAS AV “1z): CVPTVAI-sPll xu. . 
4 ara Sinhetzkara Zeru no bapi so chipitn au eritza du atso X... 
| 312. ...CAECINA - Q. F. CASPO * VIX. ANNO. X (X) 
° 309. CEICNA : A. YLA /VNI * AFILM 
| Sinhetzkara ara Kusara bapi kau irago atso no 
| Sinhetzkara beheld Kusara father for passes age no 
211, L. CAECINA -: L. F. TLARONT - VIX - ANN(O)S - XXX 
