PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
5-8. OL SVLVML FAMAELOIPENEOIEMY ACFELOINA 1? 
mau albeaspi mi go ager no banesa mautune kanemaunenoku rachi 
aginsa mau kara 
mai albo azpi imi go agerrian banaiz ema autune kian mai ne naga 
eritsi aginza mai ekarri 
tablet side under placing of information I am giving choose who did 
tablet to hate estimation oftering tablet bring 
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rachiusapikane kupitupikanenochi pikaneichenra ichpichio nekanen- 
ochiu rama 
eritsi utsa bakine jabe tobe kian aintzi bakine etsain ra ichpichio 
nekian nochiun Roma 
to esteem fails to communicate lords instead he did warn to com- 
municate oppose to contribution I did request Rome 
gageure,” but in Etruscan ichpi and ichpichio evidently denote a contribution. The Japanese 
tsubu, a grain or morsel, is the equivalent of ichpi. 
ne kian nochiu : I do not recognize nechiuv in Basque, although its meaning ‘* desire” is con- 
tained in the verb nai. It answers to the Japanese nozo-mu, desire, wish for. The Japanese 
verb corresponding to nai, nahi is negau. In Basque the auxiliary kian follows the verb as 
in n-eraus-kian, the 1st sing. imp. ind. of erausi. Here it is attached to the pronoun. 
obi rano, in Etruscan oba rano. The word obi, hobi means a grave, and forms obi-ratu, bury. 
The Choctaw has the simpler form hoppih, bury. The postposition rano, towards, also occurs 
as ra, rako,rakano, ranoku. In Japanese it survives in an old furm ga-ri, towards. 
banaiz eragin: banaiz 1s now a modified 1st sing. pres. ind. of naiz, meaning “‘ifIlam.” AsI 
have already stated, the Etruscan employs these forms constantly in a categorical sense. The 
verb eragin is the present Basque equivalent of ANE, but see what I have said of the two 
Etruscan verbs FE, egin, and NE, kane: note 49c. 
112 Lines 5-8. mut, the regimen of eragin. 
albo azpi imi go: the Basque albo was albe in Etrusean, and is the Choctaw alapa, side. 
The postposition azpi, often be or pi, means under, but here must rather signify on. The verb 
imi, probably mi in Etruscan, is in Basque imini or ipini. It probably survives in the final 
mi and mu of Japanese derivative verbs, as in tsuka-mu, to grasp, from tsuka, a handle, ina 
mu, to refuse, from ina, no. These will thus mean “‘to place a handle, to place a no,” which 
are thoroughly Etruscan idioms. The Choctaw mara, maiachih, to put in, is a form of mi or 
imi. Here the verb is participial, governed by go, the postposition ‘‘ of.” 
agerrian banaiz: the first word means ‘a découvert” ; for banaiz, see end of line 1-4. 
ema autu ne kian: ema, now eman, give, makes emaiten in the infinitive, and emak, bema in 
the imperative. Here it is used as an infinitive. It is the Choctaw imah. The verb autu, now 
auta, autetsi, hautatu, is separated from its auxiliary kian by the relative ne, which modern 
Basque preserves as final 7 or en. 
mat ne naga; mai is in the dative “to ne,” the postposition to, in. The following naga is the 
Etruscan original of the Basque nagatu, detest. Wan Eys says: ‘Ce nom. verb. doit dériver 
de naga ou nazka, que ne se trouvent pas.” It is the Japanese niku-mu and the Choctaw nuk- 
killih. Here naga, or in Etruscan nago, is in the infinitive to auta, or may form a compound 
verb with the following evitsi, like oneritsi, to esteem, gaitzeritsi, hate. 
eritst aginza mai ekarri: eritsi is here infinitive in form. 
118 Lines 9-12. eritsi utsw baki ne: the two Basque words wfzi, to leave, and wtz, empty, 
appear to have had a common origin. The Japanese ochi, ochiru, to fall, fail, leave, decline, is 
evidently the same word. Here the meaning of utsa@ is ‘he fails,” which in Basque would be 
utseginedu. In Etruscan apparently utsi, to fail, dispensed with the auxiliary, and in the 3 
sing. pres. ind. became utsa. ‘The preceding eritsi is in the infinitive to wtsa, The following 
