196 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
bio should mean in Etruscan the same as dio in Basque, he to him, 
and it may mean that here. The difficulty, for such difficulties I 
desire to court rather than avoid, is that fetchora Cupido is preceded 
by no, which must be a first personal sign, although it is different in 
form from that which occurs in No. 334. There it is E, ne, nt, ene. 
Still I cannot see that it is other than the possessive “my” in an 
oblique or dative case.” 
433. SINVNIA : LO - CICVS : AAAANIAM : O 
noukapikaura asma chiuchipino barabarakaurano . ma 
nau gabeko aur asma Chiuchipi no barrebarrek aur no ema 
he me has deprived child indication Chiuchipi of laughing child of give 
My departed child! to give an indication of the laughing child of Chiu 
the little 
This touching inscription exemplifies the Basque pronominal sys- 
tem in nau, he me has, but here employed interjectively, ‘* child lost 
tome.” The word gabeko is a compound of the postposition gabe, 
without, as a verb gabetu, deprive, be deprived. The words ending 
in no are in the genitive, rendered necessary, in the case of aur 
at least, by the fact of asma, which governs it, preceding. In 
barrebarrek we have an instance of the way in which some Basque 
superlatives are formed, as in Hebrew, by doubling the positive. It 
therefore means ‘“ most merry,” although laughing is the literal 
translation, 
I shall now give a number of simple inscriptions. 
281. OA - CAINEI - CANTNASA 
mara Chirau kanio Chirakaichkara anre 
mara Zerua ganio Zerukoitchekira andre 
memorial Zerua concerns Skyholder’s wife 
309. FVSINEI1 Agpinou kanio Agpinou it concerns 
CAPCVSA Zerutu chipi andre Zerutu’s little wife 
(or) Zerutu-chipi’s wife’ 
71 My amiable critic suggests too much‘elasticity in connection with pio. Biw is in modern 
Basque the 3rd sing. imperative—let him have. In Etruscan, V, be, plainly marks the third 
sing. pres. indic. of a verb to have, todo. Van Eys states that b is the characteristic of the 
third person (sub. bere, biz). This is not borne out by the Etruscan, which gives banais for 
naiz, banu and banuen for nuen, thus indicating that ba, or in Etruscan be, was recognized as 
an integral part of the auxiliary. Just as the English verb substantive is a compound of three 
original verbs, so must we regard that of the Basques. Like the Japanese, the Basque must 
originally have had several auxiliaries, the remaius of which are to be looked for in the forms of 
naiz and dwt and in the terminations of the regular verbs. 
78 According to Fabretti, the final A of 309 is absent. In Lanzi, 70 and 71, the name oceurs 
as FVISI Gipiunou, the wife of one Zuutzegin and the mother of another, If Fabretti be right, 
the chipi must mean ‘a little one” or child, but it leaves the final no unaccounted for. 
