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sisting of babe father and awrre fore. The Basque word for fore- 
fathers, ancestors, is aurrekoak, but babeaurre is not a modern Basque 
word. 
38. LAPOI - SEIANYI : 8PAVNISA - AYIV : AIVYE: M 
zaratumai noneurakakuu loturapikaunare rakuupi bahipikune no 
zarratu mai non orogogoi Loturapika au andre Arkoibe bahi bakan no 
written table where remembers Loturapika his wife Arkoibe consort 
only behold 
I have already directed attention to bahi, a pledge or engagement, 
as an Etruscan term for wife or consort. It is here followed by 
bakan, bukhan, only, which the Eugubine Tables represent by the 
same form pikune.” Its use may indicate that the Etruscans were 
usually polygamists. The final no is a particle meaning “tiens!” 
hold! here! take it! look! when addressed to a woman; when 
addressed to a man, it is to. 
36. AYVSNEI - CA8AYES 
arkupino kanio chiralaraguneno 
Argubena ganio jarri alargun no 
Argubena it concerns attention widower of 
It concerns Argubena, the gift of her widower*® 
Already jarri has been before us. It means attention, as in 
jarramon or jar eman, give attention. The modern Basque word for 
widow is alargun, and there is no other term to denote widower. 
The statement of Lanzi that this is a woman’s epitaph necessitates 
the reading of the latter. 
114, FEL - YIYEM - FESIM - ApNOIAL 
aginza kuukuneno aginoi no artukamo urasa 
aginza Koigune no Aginoi no artu gomu hau eritza 
offering Koigune of Aginoi of memorial this esteems 
The memorial of Koigune : this memorial of Aginoi esteems 
1638. AVLA - CVSAEDIENA 
arpisara chipi nobane tuunekara 
Arpisari chipi nebia n dio nigar 
Arpisari little brother to she him does weep 
Arpisari weeps for her younger brother? 
¥ The present Basque word for only is bikar, Now, bakan, bakhan, bekhan means ‘‘ rare.” 
Japanese agrees with Basque in bakari. The Choctaw has beka, probably the root form. 
98 Fabretti replaces flnal S with M, but without thus affecting the sense. Im a note on this 
inscription Lauzi mentions the presence of LAPOI, so far read Larthi, and held to denote ‘a 
prince,” in inscriptions accompanied by portraits of womeu. 
99 In 163 I read Arpisari as a feminine naine, for the following reason: In most of the Khitan 
languages not only was a distinction drawn originally between elder and younger brother and 
