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cassis, which Isidore says means a helmet. The analogy of casstta, 
the crested or tufted lark, would give “ plume” rather than helmet 
as the meaning, the helmet being merely the plume-bearer. In 
Basque egatz is a feather ; eyazti, plumed, covered with feathers. 
But there is another form isats, which now denotes, equally with 
egatz, a fin, and is also applied to a small feather brush without a 
handle. These two forms, egatz, the guttural, and isats, the sibilant, 
point to an original chatz or chas, whence the Latin cassis, a plume 
or plumed helmet. The Circassian kutz, a feather, retains a better 
form of the word than the Basque. The Choctaw has hishi and 
hoshishi, but the Japanese applies the corresponding gushi exclusively 
to the hair. In many Khitan languages, as in the Choctaw, the 
same word denotes hair, feathers, and leaves. . 
Saturninus is a case of “ first catch your hare.” What word does 
it intend to set forth, sator, satr, satura, Saturnus, Saturni sacra 
dies? I find the initial chiag or izag in the augurial templum of 
Piacenza forming chiag-sarasaba and kusapino-chiag. As the tem- 
plum is astronomical in character, Chiag-Noitchio may denote the 
planet Saturn. There is room here for wide conjecture, and a 
foundation perhaps for a system of Etruscan mythology. The word 
Noitchio may equally be read Anichio. Unhappily, little or no 
mythology has been preserved by the Basques. 
The last of the bilinguals is one not generally regarded as such, 
the whole having been read as Etruscan. The first line, however, is 
Latin, the two names being feminine, and the last probably in the 
ablative case. 
Fabretti 949. ARIA + BASSA 
ARNTHAL: FRAVNAL 
artu kaku karasu egiaterbe karasa 
artu gogo Karasu Egi-Aterbe sortze 
to keep memory Karasu Egi-Aterbe nata 
The Latin names are still puzzling. The scribe evidently trans- 
lated the Etruscan into Latin or Greek in his own mind, and then 
cast about him for a Latin name having some likeness to the 
translation. If Aria stand for Aéria, the only modern Basque word 
answering to it and approaching karasu is egurastu, aérer, exposer 
au jour. It is a compound of egun, day, which in Lesghian is hint. 
T very much doubt that karaswu is eguraz. It is strange that the 
Japanese equivalent of eyurastu should be sarasu. The name I give 
