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with. The final kane represents the verb egin, to do, make.“ 
Zuntzegin may be an old name for a weaver or tailor. The other 
proper name, translated Niger, is Jaira, a Moor or person of dark 
complexion. Maira, Mahira, is the Basque word for a negro, and is 
the term employed by Axular, a Basque writer in 1642, to represent 
the Ethiopian of Jeremiah xiii. 23. The Etruscan adds Baitu, the 
spotted, from baz, spot, as the mother cof Maira. Jn Latin her name 
would probably be read as Varia. The original of the following is 
also in the Florentine Museum. 
7. AELIE8SVLNIAELIES -: CIAPOIALISA 
(Latin—Q. Folnius A. F. Pom. Fuscus.) 
Translit.—ar ne sa unela pisaka ura ensa unéno * chiura tu ma uri za au an re 
Basque—Arnesa onela Pisca aurra antsa hunen * che orde mai eritza hau andre 
Translat.—Arnius thus Pisea child cares of him; same place tablet esteems 
that wife 
Freely—Thus Arnius is honoured by his child Fuscus, and the same monument 
honours his wife.°? 
There does not appear to be any translation of proper names in 
this inscription. The Romans turned Arnius into Farnius, or 
Folnius, as they turned the Basque and Etruscan Jora into flora, and 
Loramendi, the flowery hill, into Floentia. In the Eugubine 
Tables, Lorvamendi is the name given to Florentia, near Placentia, in 
Cisalpine Gaul. Pisca is evidently the same word as Fuscus. But 
for the masculine form of the Latin, I should have made it the name 
of the wife of Arnius, and the mother of the author of the inscription. 
Pisca and aurra are thus in apposition: The word onela, hunela 
means de cette fagon, ainsi. Basque ants means care, regard, and 
should be accompanied by an auxiliary, but is here conjugated 
regularly ; infinitive EC, 3 sing. pres. ind. EL. The words I have 
49a The Etruscans seem to have had two verhs ‘‘to make” corresponding to the Iroquois 
konnis and iksas, namely kane and egin or egi, the former of which the Basques have lost. In 
Etruscan egin, generally in the form egi, is 1sed somewhat as an auxiliary, being united with 
another word, as in hatz egin. When the verb ‘‘ to make”’ stands alone, itis kane. This verb 
takes the causative pretix ev, era, and as erakane answers to the modern eragin. The Etruscan 
AFE does not, so far as I know, represent eragin, but iragan, pass. This kane answers to the 
Iroquois konnis, which means ‘‘ make” in the sense of fabrication, construction ; while tksas, 
like the Etruscan egi, egin, possesses the general meaning of the French faire. Examples of 
the use of kane will be found on page 199 Nevertheless it seems very probable that kat, kazu, 
ka or kit, kizu, kio, terminations of the three persons of the present indicative of verbs con- 
jugated regularly should have been derived from kane employed as an auxiliary. 
50 Fabretti reads the first and the last I in the first part of this inscription as L, ko, go. If 
his reading be the correct one, it will obscure the sense by turning onela and hwnen into the 
verbal forms gunela and gunion. 
