226 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
21. CELATILV.LE ™é 
chinegora ich ugo begone 
chingar. etsaigo beko ne 
spark enmity of prince to 
Front of Cippus. 
1; EVENY = YACONNA<ULADEELViat 
nepisakaku kura kakara saratu ne ichsa be 
ni Pisa gogo gure kakara zarratu ne itsas be 
I Pisa’s mind desiring states writing to adhesion under 
the adjective great. Here, as in Basque, ambat seems to mean ‘‘so much, how much.” The 
following begat is Etruscan, not Basque, which has the verbs begiratu and begistatu, meaning 
to regard. It is evidently a noun, signifying regard, esteem. 
nayago etsain a obe ekarri zigor : nayago is a comparative of nai, meaning ‘‘ rather desire,” or 
“ prefer” ; the pronoun ne is omitted, perhaps because the word in Etruscan begins with ne. 
The verbal adjective etsainta I do not know in Basque, but etsain-taswn is the noun ‘‘ enmity.” 
It is spelt in this place as in lines 9-12, #E. The noun obe means literally “ better,” and in its 
use answers to the Greek aristeus and Latin optimas. In the Eugubine Tables it frequently 
replaces jabe. The verb ekarri is in the infinitive to nayago, whicb also governs obe. The last 
word, zigor, was probably zigo-u in Etruscan, . 
mai asina begogo: asma, signification, governs mai in the genitive by position. This genitive 
of position is not uncommon in Japanese, and is the usual form in Choctaw and many other 
Khitan languages. The verb begogo, Ktruscan begago, is not Basque. It seems to be a com- 
pound of gogo, the mind, rather than of begi, tre eye, and to mean considering. It answers in 
signification to the Basque behatu, the be of which is doubtless the be of begogo. 
Pisa emaitza, in Etruscan emats: Pisa is governed in the genitive by emaitza, which is goy- 
erned in the same way by the following, wko, refusal, denial. 
ezarri; thus I read CA, which characters often stand for zeru, heaven, and for an Etrusean 
word, the nearest to which in signification is the Basque jarri. Here the sense ealls for a verb 
meaning to place or throw, both of which significations are included in ezarri. It is here con- 
jugated without regular auxiliary, and following the analogy of ekarri, should be ezar. 
116 Line 21. chingar etsai go beko ne: chingar, in Etruscan perhaps chinegora, means, a 
spark. The initial chi may represent su, fire, which appears in the Lesghian dialects as zi, za, 
zo. The Japanese word for fire is hi, and hinoko is a spark. But the same language preserves 
su as a word for fire in subitsu, the hearth, swmi, charcoal. The noun etsai now means an 
enemy, and etsaigo, enmity. There is no doubt, however, that the word should be read etsai 
go, of enmity, because its regimen chingar precedes it, and thus demands the postposition. 
The word beko followed by the postposition ve, to or in, is not Basque. It appears in a Celt- 
iberian inscription in the form Roma beka, replacing Roma jabe. It must, therefore, be an 
Etruscan and ancient Basque word for prince, connecting with the present bekoki, which Van 
Eys renders ‘front, audace.” It is the same word as the Japanese and Choctaw miko, a 
prince, chief or governor. Immediately above it in the Choctaw dictionary appears mika or 
bika, both answering to the Basque biga or miga, two. 
117 Cippus of Perusia. Front, line1. This line is defaced in the part of the first group which 
I have restored as LN, and in the end of the last group where I read LY. 
ni Pisa gogo gure. The ni, I, is at once the subject of the participial gure and the verb 
agerrikatu in the second line. Pisa is in the genitive of position to gogo. The word gure is 
used as a participle, desiring, and governs evimini in the next line in the infinitive. 
kakara, the states, without sign of plurality, has been referred to in lines 1-4, left side. It 
is in the genitive of position to zarratu. 
zarratu ne itsas be: zarratu is employed as a noun in the dative to ne. In Basque itsaskor, 
from ich, means adhering. In this place itsas is used as a noun and is governed by be, under, 
the whole signifying ‘‘ under adhesion.” 
