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denoted that which is offered to the gods. The forms egiun, egiku, 
are also as archaic as the mode of writing them. There are several 
words that agree in general meaning ; age, appearance, indication, 
egia, truth, igerri, to divine, the root ag, eg, iy, seeming to have the 
meaning of, manifest. The diverse terminations wno and kw or ko, I 
do not profess to explain."® As difficult is the word kutubiku. The 
present word for lightning is chimista, chismista, chistmista, for 
which I know of no etymology having been given. The Circassian 
forms are chobske, kopk. The Mizjejian uses a similar form, kebche, 
for thunder, and the Lesghian designates this accompaniment of 
lightning, kutiburi and kokkubikul). Pursuing the search among the 
more distant Khitan, we tind the Yeniseian Khitts calling “ light- 
ning” yekene-bok, ykende-bok, with which word Dr. Latham has 
compared the Yukahirian bug-onshe. The persistent b-k appears 
also in the Lesghian lanzvikuli, as vik. On the same page of the 
Sprach-Atlas accompanying Klaproth’s Asia Polyglotta in which 
bug-onshe is found, appears bug-ylbe, meaning a beard. Beard in 
Basque is bizar ; hence biz is the equivalent of bug. Now in Van 
Eys’s dictionary under 5/zi, life, we meet with biztu, pitztw, to light, 
excite, resuscitate. Lecluse gives piztea as meaning “allumer, 
rallumer, ressusciter.” The word biztu is biz with the verbal termi- 
nation ¢v, and may or may not be related to bizi, life. This biz or 
biztu, by one of the commonest interchanges of labials has become 
mista, and the prefixed chist represents the old kutw. Had the origin 
of the word remained in the memory of the Basques, they would 
probably have retained the Etruscan term in the inverted form 
bizkatu, tike banakatu, kilikatu, and many words of the same for- 
mation. The following ka is the postposition by. The name of 
the haruspex and fulguriator seems to be Altahola, Tlduhala, the 
relation of which to Atius or Fatius I leave to others to trace. 
His name is governed by gogo, memory, in the genitive of position. 
The final verb eritsi is in the infinitive to jar at the beginning of the 
inscription. 
In the next bilingual, for the sake of uniformity, I have placed 
the Etruscan below the Latin, although the tormer is on the lid ot 
the coffer and the latter on the side. 
108 Elsewhere I have found FIS evidently a co:mpound of egin and on, to do good or show 
benevolence Here it may be age on, to indicate good, or give good omens. In the second, 
ageku, the last syllable takes the place of sa, an Etruscan particle denoting agency. 
