ETRURIA CAPTA. F351 
15. NAAEPMPANCTLOIISALMYI - Ft 
karabanetu noturaka chiichsamatalarasanokuu ag 
ekarri banetu ondoreak chiotssa emat lurreznokoi ag- 
to bring uniting descendants let them to him give tumulus 
16. ELOINABVY - NA/AEP - AENE{M ?% 
nesamaukaraulpiku karabanetu banekaneichno 
-inza mai ekarri al beko ekarri banetu bane kian etsain 
offering tablet to bring powerful lords to bring uniting to join he did 
oppose 
Basque use of auxiliaries. Celts who speak English imperfectly frequently employ the present 
participle with the verb substantive instead of the direct present. The verb imbe is not 
Basque, but in Etruscan regularly takes the place of bialdw and irion. It occurs very often 
in the Eugubine Tables, and in every case satisfies the sense in this signification. If it be al- 
lowable at this stage to suggest etymologies, [ would be disposed to see in imbe a compound 
of imi, imini, to place, and bide, a way. In Cuvectaw pi as a radical denotes a way, as in 
pimima, that way, pillah, away yonder. The same language renders the Basque ibilli, march 
by bai-ullih, of which the latter part is the verb wlah, to come, The Basque ibilli may by 
analogy be regarded as a compound of el, eldw, to come, and a primitive ib, bi, be, the root of 
bide, a way. 
The final ‘io, in Etruscan kau, is the 3 sing. pres. ind. sign of verbs conjugated without 
auxiliary. 
zazu naiku mira nabe : for zazu, see line 12. EY, neku, negu is the commonest form of nai, 
nahi, in Etruscan ; it agrees with zazu. Of the two following words one must be a noun and 
the other a verb, but their simple forms do not indicate which is one and which the other. 
In Basque mira means astonishment; but it should rather be admiration. The word nabe 
means a plain in Basque, and nabari means to perceive from afar. In Japanese nobe and 
nobara designate a plain or moor, but nsbe, noberu, nobashi mean to extend, stretch, lengthen, 
reach out. In this passage nabe may mean to extend, or mira nabe may be a compound word 
denoting wide or extensive admiration. The chief objection to the latter reading is that it 
places the adjective after the noun. 
131 Line 15. ekarri banetu, uniting to bring. 
ondoreak : it is rare to find M and S representing initial on, wn, which generally require a 
prefixed I as in IS ono, good. In a Celtiberian inscription, however, I have found MP for 
ondo. This ondo, though perhaps modelled upon the Spanish hondo, deep, is a genuine 
Basque word. In Japanese it is inverted as ato-ni, with the significations after, behind, pos- 
terity, descendants, remains, ruins. This Japanese ato-ni is to ondo as issho-ni is to nas. 
The Circassian yeytahney, after, agrees with the Japanese ato-ni. It is most improbable that a 
loan word should have so many compounds as ondo has in Basque. 
chiotssa emat: I do not know chiotssa, or more correctly chiichsa, as a Basque pronominal 
auxiliary. He them to him does, is diotza; they it to him do, is cioten ; and let them do, is 
bezate. I suppose chiichsa, cietssa, cietsza, to be a compound imperative, ‘‘let them to him 
do.” For emat, see-line 10. 
lurreznokoi: lurvenokoi and maranokoi have appeared in the short inscriptions. I have 
queried koi as answering to the Japanese koya, a small house or chamber. Thus /usre has 
virtually two genitive signs like the Basque Jurrezko. An earthen chamber must be a tumulus, 
the common mark of honour to the dead among the Khitan, as seen in the Pictish barrows of 
Britain, and the mounds of Siberia and North America. 
132 Line 16. aginza mai ekarri al beko: al is probably here used as an adjective, powerful, 
rather than as a noun denoting the Dominion in the genitive to beko. For beko, see notes on 
Left Side of Cippus, line 21. It must be in the plural without sign. 
ekarri banetu, uniting to bring. 
