180 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
rendered che orde are che, méme, and orde, lieu, place. In modern 
Basque che is generally, if not always, final, as in emen-che, ici-méme:- 
The next inscription I present is one of immense importance, for 
it is the key to the Etruscan numeral system, which exhibits such | 
differences from the Basque that, without such a key, it would be 
exceedingly difficult to find the values of Etruscan numbers. From 
a careful study of numerals in six hundred languages and more, I 
am prepared to call in question Jacob Grimm’s statement that 
numerals occupy the first place among evidences of linguistic affinity. 
No words are more readily lost in the contact of peoples. The key 
lies in the repetition of the written numbers by the Basque equiva- 
lents of the Roman figures LX X. ¥ 
28. CK - +: - NA > SEO8EM - LAFCINAL : PIL : TXX 
Translit.—chine * * * ' kara none molaneno saragichi uka rasa du usa LXX 
Basque--Chine * * * * kara none molaneno saragichi ogoi urte du atso LXX 
Translat.—Chine * * * * kara who tenth thrice twenty years has age LXX 
_Freely—Sin * * + * garri, aged seventy years. 
But see note 51. 
Before proceeding to consider the numerals, the word for year 
demands attention. It is now wrte, urthe. In Etruscan times it 
seems to have been asa or artsa, corresponding with the Lesghian 
reshin and Circassian tlaysee.” Basque numeration for the higher 
numbers is vigintesimal, and the Rev. Isaac ‘Taylor has shewn that 
the Etruscan was probably the same. He cites the Basque ogei or 
hogoi, 20, and the accordant Georgian ozet. This is the word read 
uka or oga. A pair of dice inscribed with numbers written in full, 
now in Paris in the Cabinet des Médailles, have been largely dis- 
cussed by the Rev. Isaac Taylor and other writers, but unhappily on 
the old principle of reading Etruscan. The names of the numbers 
on the sides uf the dice are 8VO, alpimo, OV mopi, LAF saragi, 
51 Fabretti has a reading of this inscription differing in essential points from that of Lanzi, 
I leave the text untouched, as those who have access to the original must judge between the 
copyists. If Fabretti’s reading is the correct one, the key to the numerals is no longer such, 
but a deception and a snare. Fabretti reads: 
CEFL * NA - SEPTEM - LAFCINAL . PIL . TXX 
sinegisa kari nonekutuneno saragichi oga arsa tuusa LXX 
Sinegisa ekarri non — saragichi ogei urte du atso LXX 
Sinegisa it bears who — tarice twenty years has age 
I have already in a note referred tu the double use of non in Etruscan for where and who. 
52 See The Khitan Languages: the Aztec and Its Relations, in Proceedings of Institute, Vol 
II., Fase. 2, p. 164, for the equivalence of yr and tl. 
