184. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
In this inscription the word, and, is reduced from basa to sa. 
The mopila is the same as mopira of 469, and means 8, so that 
mopila sa morano is eighteenth. Mopila has no resemblance to the 
present Basque word for 8, which is zortzi, but its original shines 
out from among the varying Lesghian forms, meiba, bitlno, betclna, 
and the Mizjejian bar, bari. It may have meant, two from ten. As 
for the other numbers, mopi, two, is the present Basque bi with a 
prefix. “ Were it not to introduce a new subject open to question, it 
would be easy to show the original Etruscan numerals in those of 
the Dacotahs, whose 2 is nopa, nompa. Four, which is nora in 
Etruscan, survives in Basque as lJaur. Such a change is not 
uncominon, for nariu and larru, lahur and nahar, ultze and untze, 
are the same words. One, is pimo or alpimo. In Basque bat is 
one, but in composition it becomes ban. Final m hardly exists 
in Basque. Three, sarugi, has already been considered. Five 
is mirago, and this is very likely the original of the Basque bortz, 
bost. It is the Koriak myllanga, and, on this continent, the 
Sonora mariki and Pujuni markum.* Six, siz in Etruscan, is set in 
AL AAN * AENALECLEN °* CELA °- IVOINEM - /ALENALEIM 
agiuza urano larakarachikarasa mopila samorano 
arsa baraka banekarasanezizaneka zinesara ubimauganeno basanekarasaneuno 
Basque. aginza aur no Larrikarachi sortze mopila sa morano 
urte berek bane Karasane zazu neke Zinsara obi mai ganaino epaitzen Karasane huno 
offering child of Larrikarachi natus eight and tenth 
year his ; unite Karasane do ye Zinsara grave tablet towards cut Karasane this. 
I have omitted the translation of neke, as it makes no sense, ‘‘do ye be unable (neke) to join 
Karasane.” I think the word should be ENA, negar, ‘‘do ye add your tears to those of 
Karasaue.” On the su-called Midas and Kelokes monuments of Phrygia, and on some Pictish 
tombs, negar occurs as well as in Etruscan. The word bane, more fully banetu, is the Etruscan 
equivalent of the Basque batu. As pimo meant one, pimotu would be the original verb to 
unite, tv make one. This must have fallen to banetu, and finally tv batu. It is interesting to 
observe the analogy of the Choctaw, which I have elsewhere called American Basque. Its 
“present word for one is achuffa,a word having no visible relation to the old language; but 
bano means only, alone, and banochih is the verb, to reduce to unity. But the Choctaw also 
has bat, meaning only, alene, exactly reproducing the Basque bat, one. The verb epaitzen is 
more properly ebakitzen, to cut. 
69 My friendly critic thinks mirago and bortz irreconcilable. The original Khitan name for 
five was the hand with its flve extremities. This appears best in the Koriak of Siberia, which 
has mingilen, mingilgin, mylgalgen and mynnagylgen for hand, and myllygen, millgin, myllanga, 
myllangu and minlanka for 5. The Aztec shows but a distant connection, hand being maitl, 
and 5 macuil. In the Sonora dialects, which Buschmann has classed with the Aztec, 5 is 
mariki, marqui, muliki, and in Pujuni we have the form markum. These correspond as to 
consonants with the Etruscan mirago, but in regard to the first syllable the Etruscan word is 
nearer the Koriak millgin. Let mirago be marago or morgo: an interchange of labials common 
in Basque as in all languages makes it barago, borgo, which if not bortz is a step on the way 
toit. As far back as the time when the Song of Lelo, the oldest Basque production extant, 
