188 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
modern Basque I know of no verbs oa-eman and oa-ten, but oartu, 
compounded of oar and artu, attention and take or pay, means 
observe, perceive, pay attention. The root of oar and oartu is plainly 
oa or oha, as appears in the Japanese verb uwyamai, to honour, 
reverence, worship.” The final fen is the common termination of 
verbs, emuten, egiten, edaten, &c. 
of the engravers to cause characters to do double duty. The first N of the inscription belongs 
to the name, and should be repeated to make with EI the common formula kanio. It is pos- 
sible that the repetition of the same syllable was, for euphouy’s sake, not allowed in Etruscan 
speech, and that the engravers wrote the language as it was spoken. In English we do the 
same thing by omitting the possessive after many words ending in s, both in speaking and in 
writing. For the meaning of Eginezauwika, see additional Bilinguals, No. 1496, page 215, 
65 As in these pages reference is frequently made to the relationship of the Basque, and thus 
of the Etruscan, to the Japanese and other languages, which I have classified under the name 
Khitan, I have thrown together in this note a few evident examples of relationship between 
the Basque and the Japanese, and between the Choctaw and these two languages. For the 
relations of the Caucasian tongues and those of the Iroquois and Aztec, I refer to my two 
papers on the Khitan languages already sufficiently indicated. - 
SOME SUPERFICIAL RESEMBLANCES OF JAPANESE AND BASQUE WORDS. 
Japanese. 
agaru, to ascend 
ani, elder brother 
anji, care 
chibi-chibi, little by little 
Basque. 
igaro 
anai, brother 
ansi 
chipi, little 
garai, hot gori 
hata-hata, grasshopper ote 
ima, here emen 
ishi, stone aitz, rock 
karai, hard gogorra 
kare, dry igar 
kashira, captain agin-zari 
kayeru, frog igel 
kaze, wind aize 
kerau, sick heri, eri 
kesa, morning goiza 
kiiro, yellow hori 
kobe, kubi, head, chief jabe, lord 
koi, to desire koi, desirous 
kokoro, mind, heart gogo 
kokoroyeru, remember gogoratu 
kori, ice karroin 
korosu, kill heriotze 
kuboi, hollow kofa 
kurenai, red gorri 
magaru, bent makur 
massakari, axe haizkora 
miru, see miratu 
mure, group muru 
muse-ru, to become mouldy 
mutchitu, mouldy 
naku, weep negar-egin 
negau, desire nahi 
niku-mi, hate nagatu 
nobe, a plain nabe 
