ETRURIA CAPTA. 225 
13-16. VMICM: ASVNAM : AENONA : AMAFELOINA - A8VN "4 
bemiuchino ralapikarano banekamakara ramira aginsa maukara 
ralapika 
beimi oyeche no Ralapika rano bane gomu ekarri eramira aginza mai 
ekarri Ralapika 
subject these of Ralapika towards united memory bring causing to 
see offering tablet bringing Ralapika 
17-20. OVPVNI - EINJEPIVNACLA . OILOVNL VLOL : IL : CA 
mabetubekau neuka ichentuube kara chigora mauasmabekago 
pisamasa ugo chira 
ambat begai nayago etsainta obe ekarri zigor mai asina begogo Pisa 
emaitza uko ezarri 
great regard I desire inimical chief to bear scourge tablet meaning 
regarding Pisa gift refusal throws 
beka ne or baki-ne I read as a form of the Basque baki-datu, communicate, the final ne being 
the postposition ‘“*to.”” The sense would be clearer could VNE be read VYE, bekune, which is 
the Etruscan for only, alone: ‘‘one only fails to honour.” 
jabe tobe kian aintzi ; jabe, Etruscan kobe, is here used as a plural without sign, as in Japan- 
ese. It is governed by tobe, a purely Etruscan word, answering to the Basque bidean, in place 
of. It may be a compound of toki, place, and be, under. In Choctaw wlh-tobah means in place 
of. The auxiliary kian precedes the verb aintzi, now ainzindu, aitzindu, devancer, prévenir. 
bakine etsain ru ichpichio: here bekane or baki-ne means to communicate. The following 
word, +E, should, according to Front of Cippus, line 16, be +M, unless it be a different word 
of like signification. It means to oppose, and the following ra euphoniously takes the place of 
ne, to. 
nekian nochiu: for nochiu see line 1. The relative ne is probably omitted to avoid the repe- 
tition of the same sound. Therefore nekian may be translated ‘‘ which I did.” 
Roma, now Erroma: the Basque form exhibits the peculiarity of that language as compared 
with sister tongues, which'T have illustrated in my papers as the Khitan languages, namely, 
the prefixion of vowels to many words whose original initial letter was a consonant. ‘There is 
no evidence that the Etruscaus did the same. The Cippus evidently belongs to a period when 
Etruria, although maintaining its ancient constitution, was in recognized subjection to Rome. 
114 Lines 13-16. bemi oyeche no: the present Basque words for subject are mendeko, botoya. 
This bemi is a compound of be, under, and imi, to place, meaning the same as subjectus. In 
Basque oyechek is ‘‘even these,” and oyechen ‘‘of even these.” The Etruscan genitive is marked 
by the stronger no. 
Ralapika rano, towards Ralapika. This is the name of the Lucumo, probably a native of 
Perusia, in whose honour the Cippus was erected. Etruscan proper names, like the Basque 
and American Khitan, seem to be significant. I leave the determination of their meaning to 
Basque scholars. The name may read Aralbeka, 
bane gomu ekarri; bane is the abbreviated form of banetu, answering to the Basque batu. 
The Etruscan gamu represents the gomu of the Basque gomuta, remembrance. Compare Etrus- 
can gago and Basque gogo. The verb ekarri is used participially. 
eramira aginza mai ekarri: the only word to note is eramira, which is not modern Basque. 
It is, however, regularly formed by prefixing the causative era, as in eraman, erakarri, to the 
verb mira, miratu. Ralapika is in the genitive of position to ambat begai. 
115 Lines 17-20. ambat begat: Basque lexicographers suppose ain to be the root of ambat. 
It is more probable that ain is a corruption of an original anv, for the Basque is hardly tolerant 
of the letter m, save at the beginning of a word. In Japanese omoi, meaning weighty, impor- 
tant, great, seems to present the same root. As ambe, the Etruscan uses the word to represent 
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