ETRURIA CAPTA. 195 
The final en of Miwkuturen is locative and dative. JI have inserted 
this tablet for the benefit of Basque students who assert that the 
verbs miratu, miretsi are borrowed from the Spanish mirar.™ 
435. LO - APNYNI » CALESA « AAYISLANIA 
asma artukakukau Chirasane nora baraku unosaraka ura 
asma artugogo kio Chirasane andre berek onetsirik aur 
Translution—Indication, hold in memory does Chirasane’s wife her 
dearly beloved child 
Here we have a new but modern Basque word, not uncommon in 
the inscriptions, asma, a sign, trace, indication. The sign of person, 
and tense, io, though following gogo, memory, belongs to the pre- 
ceding verb wrtu, hold. The verb onetsi, to love, esteem, assumes an 
attributive form in onetsirik.” 
441, OANIAAEYPVI : ALANCVPIA : SALAYVP 
maraka ura banekutupiu basarakachipituura nobasarakupitu 
margaharri banekutupio fetchoraka chipitu aur ena fetchora Cupido 
indication stone communicate to him does gentle little child to my 
gentle Cupid” 
All the words in this inscription have already occurred with the 
exception of the auxiliary termination pio. In modern Basque biu 
means let him have. In Etruscan final pi or be means he has or 
does. But the Basque, like the Iroquois, has a wonderfully complex 
system of included pronouns combining with the auxiliaries or verb- 
endings. Thus zayo signifies he to him has, dio, he it to him has, 
hau, he thee has, nau, he me has. According to all analogy, pio or 
modern Basque verb ekit, us numerous examples testify. It may be an old furm of bakidatu, 
to communicate, in the sense of offering, giving. The analogy thus appears: Bas. one, bat; 
unite, batw; communicate, bakidatu; separate, bankatu. Etr. one pimo; unite, banetu; com- 
municate, banekutu ; separate, pimokutu. These are among the comparatively rare instances 
in which the ancient word 1s larger than the modern. 
7 It is natural that lexicographers should seek the relations of the words they gather. It is 
also true that there are many French and Spanish words in Basque as now spoken and written. 
Yet many have been erroneously regarded as loan-words which are pure Basque. Suchis mira, 
the Japanese miru. The same language has so, regard, equally with the Basque. The Basque 
ikhus is the Iroquois ikkens. 
% See Van Hys, Dictionnaire Basque-Frangais, sub ik. United to verbal adjectives, it gives 
them the value of an ablative absolute, but the signification of ik is not always equally clear. 
When it is preceded by a vowel, euphonic 7 must intervene. If such explanatory notes are 
elsewhere wanting, it is because I have all along had Basque scholars in view, to whom the 
ultimate appeal must in any case be made. 
76 Fabretti reads V, the last letter but one of the inscription, as Y. There is much confusion 
between these characters. Sometimes Vis made Y, and Y is made T. Whether Kupido or 
Kukuto, it makes little difference, as the word is a proper name. 
