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the men of the Perscli, Popler, the men of Populonia, etc. Those 

 tei-minations are eminently Gaelic ; and though the collocation or 

 composition of the proper names in question has no exact counter- 

 part in modern Irish or Scottish Gaelic, resemblances there are of 

 such strength and cleai'ness as to establish the Gaelic character of 

 those Umbrian syllables or endings. 



In Irish and Scottish Gaelic, in Manx and Welsh though not in 

 Armorican, adjectives are declined, and, therefore, undergo inflection 

 as nouns do. The same peculiarity attaches to adjectives in the 

 Umbrian Inscriptions, e. g. 



Avvei mersta, Aveif merstaf, Mfrsta ancla,. 



Oarer peihaner, Ocre fisie, Ocriper Jisiv, 



Ocrem Jisiem, Ocre fisivi, Tatar ijovina, 



Tatar ijavinar, Tote javine, Totam ijovinam, 



Toteme javinem, Tote tarsinate, Tatar tarsinater, 



Totam tarsinatem, Tri/o tarsinatem, Trifar tarsinater, 



Tri/o tarsinate, Tote ijovine erer nonuie, 



Nomner Naharcer Tapiiscer, Tuscam Kaharconi Tapuscam noi\ie. 

 Purdito fust Capif purdita, Pxirditoni fust, 



Peracrei, Peracrio tursituto, Acre tlatie, 



Acre casilos, Casilis Herti, Casilatediram Herti. 



Mersta, ocre, tate or tota, trifar, namiie, purdita, jieracrei, casiler : 

 Here are adjectives, whether verbal or otherwise which indicate 

 conclusively in the connection where they are found, that they fulfil 

 the condition of Celtic adjectives, and undergo inflections in the 

 same manner as the nouns that they qualify do. I am disposed to 

 regard acriper and acrejier as a comparative foi'm of ocre (i. e. acarach). 

 Zeuss indeed calls attention to a rare termination thir of the compar- 

 ative degree of adjectives. There is a resemblance between the per 

 of acriper and the thir which is mentioned by Zenss. 



The Infinitive of verbs in Irish and Scottish Gaelic generally ends 

 in adh. In the Umbrian Inscriptions tu is the common ending of 

 the Infinitive, corresponding thus very closely to te and ta, the ending 

 of the past participle of Gaelic verbs. It is evident that the form 

 of the verb which indicated the Infinitive in the Umbrian language, 

 now appears in the past participle of Gaelic verbs. The corres- 

 pondence between the Infinitive forms of the Inscriptions and the 

 past participles of modern Gaelic verbs, is so apparent as not only to 



