ETRURIA CAPTA. 191 
and got, goya, koya, high, elevated. The Etruscan form Goijaun 
is more in accordance with the genius of the Basque language than 
the modern Jainko. The repeated artw is the common verb “to 
take, receive.” Azpiko, literally, he who is under, now means a 
slave, but may refer to any subject or servant. The form awretsa is 
not modern Basque. It is apparently composed of awrre before, the 
French devant, and etsi, esteem. A word that may correspond is 
aurkeztu, to present, in which the inserted * may be simply euphonic. 
Probably auretsé means homage, the regard of one who presents 
himself before Deity. The che of azpiko-che may intensify azpiko in 
the direction of humility. It will thus answer to the Japanese 
humble prefixes ki and hei. 
A somewhat difficult votive tablet follows, my object being not to 
present the simpler texts, but to give a just view of the inscriptions, 
with all their variations and difficulties. 
272. AADOI baratu mai zarratu mai 
ANCADNEI rakachiratukanio erruki jarritu ganio 
YVDINAM Kupido uga rano Cupid uga rano 
Translation—The written tablet concerns an act of sympathy toward the 
mother of Cupid. 
Here we find an act of worship towards Venus, the Istapeko of 
the Basques. The engraver has made a mistake in the first letter, 
which should be the corresponding sa, za.” The full form of maz, 
mahi, table, follows. In raka the root of erruki, urriki, sympathy, 
compassion, appears. That root I am convinced is the postposition 
rako, towards. It appears as a verb in the Eugubine tables, as does 
rano, regularly conjugated with the auxiliaries, to denote siding, 
sympathizing, agreeing, taking part with. Jarri means to set to, 
“to strike violently,” and forms olan-driko, correction by blows. The Choctaw ahlepah is 
probably the same word as the Basque chiribi, chiribiri, a fiddle, which makes chiribikar a 
fiddler. The player is degraded to the position of a mere carrier of the instrument by the 
suffix kar from ekarri, instead of the old word ola, olin, bola, bolin. 
The three languages employ different auxiliaries, and show much diversity in the use of pro- 
nouns, but their particles and construction are virtually one as well as their vocabulary. The 
Choctaw language, or that of the Tshekto as they call themselves, connects geographically 
with the Japanese through the Siberian Tchuktchis. The Basque, Japanese and Choctaws do 
not represent the dispersed of one tribe, but different tribes of a great national dispersion. 
66 The original Khitan word for lord probably ended in mi, like the Japanese kimt, lord, 
master, kami, god. The Corean word for lord, and master of the house, is kown. This seems 
to be the Etr. form kaon. As kobe became jabe, so kaon became jaun in Basque. A similar 
case is joan to go, sometimes pronounced goan and gan. In Etruscan it is gune or goen, 
67 Fabretti gives the first character correctly as L. 
