230 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
12. CLENOVNLVLOE !4 
chisanekamabe kago pisamane 
zazu neke ambe gogo Pisa eman 
have you inability great mind Pisa to give 
13. 8ALAM : LIEMI8VMLE : FELOINA!” 
larasarano gounemialpenosane aginsamaukara 
lurrez rano goye ni imi albo nas ne aginza mai ekarri 
grave towards word I place side together to offering tablet to bring 
14. BINOACALEMVNICLEYMASV 1 ' 
ulukamaerchirasanemipi kauchisanekumiranobe : 
al auka ema eritsi ra esan imbe kio zazu naiku mira nabe 
Lucumo honour to saying send he does have you desire admiration to 
extend 
adjectif, particule queleonque, peut se convertir en verbe en ajoutant tcea on cea, selonque le 
mot est terminé par une voyelle on par une consonue; exemples: 
bat, oui baitcea, affirmer 
aita, pere atatcea, devenir pere 
Thus nabusi makes nabusitcea; but the final a, representing the article, has no place in 
Etruscan, It is better to adhere to one mode of orthography; therefore I take the tz of Van 
Eys iather than the itce of Lecluse. 
lanesa, now langille: see note on line 9 for sa as the Etruscan termination denoting an 
agent. 
hitz zarratu mara asin Ralapika nen: hitz, word, is governed by zurratu which is in the 
infinitive to nabusitze. The common sepulchral morakara, maragogo is reduced to mara, a 
monument. In asan I find an abbreviation of asantsi in line 10. The postposition should fol- 
low mara, but is carried to the end of the clause and follows Ralapika. This postposition 
neno in Etrusean seems like a combination of ne to, and no, of. It answers to the naino of 
ganaino. Inthe Eugubine Tables it 1s found after names of places as in arten banion Arretiag 
neno, aud thus appears to meau “into.” 
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128 Line 12. zazw neke ambe gogo Pisa eman: zazu, in Etruscan zezu, 2 pl. imperat. of dut. 
With neke it may read “fail ye,” or ‘‘ have ye inability.” The only point of grammar to note 
is the absence of the postposition ne after Pisa. This detached passage, perhaps a quotation, 
seems metrical, a dissyllabic hexameter, so that poetic license may accvunt for the missing ne. 
129 Line 13. lurrez rano: lur still makes lurrezko as well as lurreko, of the earth, terrestrial ; 
but here lurrez is employed as a synonym of obi, the grave. 
goye ni imi; goye in Lecluse is conversation. In Japanese it is kojo, a verbal message. The 
following ni is the pronoun I, which accompanies the verb imini, to place, in an Etruscan 
form identical with the root, but which may, by a trifling change of the second vowel, have 
represented the 1 sing. pres. ind. without auxiliary. 
albo nas ne: albo nas, see line 4; ne is the postpusition to used as infinitive sign. 
130 Line 14. Alauka ema: the translation is literally ‘‘ power choice given,” probably mean- 
ing “‘the elected potentate.” In Basque, choice is auta or aukera: iu Etruscan it seems to 
have been auku. This is the Lucwmo of the Roman writers. The groups which I read alka- 
mane in the Hittite Inscriptions, Hamath I. lI. and which I translated ‘I the powerful,” may 
‘represent this ancient title of authority. The Lucumo is Ralapika. 
eritsi ra ; infinitive. 
esan imbe kio; esan is the present participle, which is really the radical part of the Basque 
verb. See Max Miller, Science of Language, 2nd Series, Lecture I.; also Lecluse, Manuel de 
la Langue Basque, p. 63, for the analogy of the English ‘‘I am saying, J do say” with the 
