194 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
The form maraka or marga harri has appeared in note 40. The 
present word for join is batwu, derived from bat, one. As we have 
found bemo or pimo to be the Etruscan form of bat, it is natural to 
find its compound in such a shape as banetu presents. This word is 
very common in the Eugubine Tables, where it is impossible to 
doubt its meaning. The auxiliary nuqueyen is the modern form of 
the lst sing. past conditional of dut, I should have had. Here it 
must be read as precatory. 
The auxiliary of the present tense, pi or be occurs in the following. 
180. APNOIAEYPV - APAYANIA. 
artukamo u banekutu pi Batuba Kuraka ura 
artugomu hau banekutu be Batuba Kuraka aur 
memorial this communicate does Batuba Kuraka’s child” 
The word artugomu I have not met with in Basque, but it is a 
perfectly admissible form, from artw hold, and gomuta remembrance. 
I am in doubt about banekutu, which should mean to execute. Fol- 
lowing the analogy of batu, banetu, I query banekutu as an old form 
of bakidatu, to communicate.” In the Eugubine Tables be is com- 
mon for he has, does. The following presents banekutu with a dif- 
ferent termination : 
313. OVI : LAPO : AEYDNI : LADOALI 
SA 
Mopiu zaratu ma banekutu kau zaratu ma rasa u 
nora 
Mopio zarratu mai banekutu kio ; zarratu mai eritsa hau 
andre 
Mopio engraved tablet communicate does; engraved tablet honours his 
wife. 
The only word to note is the final kio of banekutukio. It is the 
termination of verbs conjugated without auxiliaries, to which I 
referred under No. 20 in connection with kanio. The form kio is 
but a variant of zo. It serves to mark banekutw as a verb in the 
third person singular, present indicative. 
318. MA * MIVYPAE mira miukutura ne mira Miukutura n 
LAPOI : AS zaratu mal rano zarratu mai rano 
Translation—Look towards the engraved tablet to Miukutura 
72 Fabretti reads APAA instead of APAY. This would make the name of the parent Baraka 
78 Banekutu is certainly not bankatu, for not only does that mean to separate, which gives 
no sense, but it appears in the Eugubine Talles as pimokatu. The termination kutw is the 
