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eramine ager gotu sarabe kuka aginsa maukarano ne 
erimini agerri katu zarrapo egoki aginza mai ekarri no ni- 
cause to place declare writing suitable offering tablet bringing of I 
3. MYLAA8VNAMSLELELEOCAPV 1 
nokusararalapikaranonosanesanesanemachiratupi 
-on ikusi ra Ralapika rano nas antsa antsa ne ema jar tobe 
him did see cause Ralapika towards together caring care to giving 
attention instead of 
4. YEFANSVMLEPIYESNMYEIM !” 
kuneichrakalabenosanetuukunenokanokuneuno 
gune itcherik albo nas nituo gune noku naga ne on 
us to adhering side together 1 to them do us to failing hates who good 
M8 Line 2. erimini agerrikatu zarrapo egoki. The verb erimini is not Basque, but it is 
regularly compounded of the causative era and imini. It is in the infinitive to gure. The 
following agerrikatu should perhaps be igorri-katu, send, which will remove the syntactical 
difficulty of leaving zarrapo egoki without a governing word. Neither agerri-katu nor igorri- 
katu are Basque words, but katw is a common termination of Basque verbs, as in igeri-katu, to 
swim. Etruscan zarabe, Basque zarrapo, scratching, writing, is used as a synonym of zarratu. 
The Choctaw verbs to scratch are shulufih, kalugih. YN is always the Etruscan form for ; 
egoki. 
aginza mai ekarri no, has appeared so frequently as to need no further explanation. The 
final ni belongs to the next line. 
19 Line 3. nion ikusi ra ; nion is good Basque, ‘1 it to him did.” The following ikusi ra is 
an inversion of erakusi, cause to see, instruct. I know of no corresponding Basque form of 
ikusi, but tasi, to learn, becomes causative not only as erakasi, bnt also as tkasarazi. 
Ralapika rano, needs no further explanation. 
nas antza antza ne; nas, Etruscan nosa, nasa, is still employed in one Basque dialect to 
mean together. It is evidently a compound word, as the Japanese represents it by issho-ni. 
The following antza repeated superlatively I cannot explain. The usual form of antsi to care 
for is EC, and here the word is plainly in the infinitive to ne. 
ema jar tobe: here jar and eman come together as in the Basque word jaramon, faire cas 
de, faire attention. It seems to be used participially as ‘‘ giving attention.” The adverbial 
postposition tobe, instead of, has been considered. 
120 Line 4. gune itcherik: gu was the Etruscan pronoun, we, as it is the Basque, but in the 
dative it takes ne instead of 77. In some of the sepulchral inscriptions appears the long form 
itchekirik, from itcheki, to hold to, adhere. The final vii, of which 7 is for euphony, forms 
partitives and ablative absolutes. Here it seems to form a verbal adjective, adhering. 
albo nas nituo; albonas is in this place used as a compound verb with the auxiliary. The 
Etruscan had a pronominal form of dut in nio, answering to the Basque diot, as well as one in 
nau agreeing with the Basque naw. This nio, 1 to him do, is here in the plural of the regimen, 
nituo, I to them do, which answers to nio as naute does to nau. 
gune noku naga ne; gune isthe pronoun ‘‘we” in the dative. The following nokw has for its 
subject the ne, who, following naga. It survives in Basque as the noun noku, defect, and 
seems the same as the Japanese nai, naku, which with the auxiliary naru, means, to fail. In 
Etruscan it was noka and took rank as a verb. Here it should be in the 3 sing. pres. ind. 
without auxiliary. Its neighbour naga, in Etruscan noku, means, as has already appeared, to 
hate or oppose. It also is in the 3 sing. pres. ind. without auxiliary. The final on, in Etruscan 
ono, the adjective ‘‘ good” belongs to the next line. 
