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marakara, maragogo. The present word for stone is arri, but that 

 there was an older form mara or tnarri is evidenced by the words, 

 malkar, a stony place, murrua and hartnora, a wall. The kar or 

 kara is the verb ekarri, to bear or carry. In the runic Pictish 



Fabretti 958. THANIA 



SVDERNIA • AR • P 

 TA SADNAL 

 kukarakaura 



nobetunetakaura arte egi 

 kura noratukarasa 

 Basque, egoki rako harri 



Nobetu Antaka aur artu egi 

 gur Noratu sortze 

 concerns offering stone. 

 Nobetu Antaka's son — hold ! do 

 reverence ; Noratu natus. 

 I have rendered artu as an interjection, like the French tiens. Reverence is gxir in Basque/ 

 Fabretti, 288. TAHlA • SVDERNIA • SADNAL 



kurakaura nobetunetakaura noratukarasa 

 Basque : gureki harri Nobetu Antaka aur Noratu sortze 



reverential stone Nobetu Antaka's child Noratu natus 

 In the inscription A and H are blended. The reading given is inadmissible on grammatical 

 grounds. I suppose, therefore, that the first word is really an abbreviation of egoki rako harri, 

 which will make perfect sense. * 



Fabretti, 1985. THANA SEIOIA • TRB$V 



kukarakara noneuchiura kuta ne ma be 

 Basque : egoki rakora non Otseherri Guda ne ema bu 



concerns offering what Otseherri Guda to give does 



Non now means "where," but in Etruscan the numerous instances of its use claim for it also 



the meaning of the relative. The Japanese has no relative pronoun. The Iroquois uses ne, 



nene, the demonstratives, as relatives, and has also the forms tsini, tsina, tsin, answering to the 



Basque zein. The Choctaw has among its relatives ing, ang, ona, and that of the Aztec is yn. 



The following are some of the terms or formulas hitherto read as proper names, against all 

 probability, save on the supposition that the Etruscans excelled all other peoples in poverty of 

 nomenclature : 



I have just received from Mr. VanderSmissen the following inscriptions, which seem to favour 

 the present school of Etruscology : 



Fabretti, 984, bis d. LARTHI A • MARINA • CAINAI • FILIA 



If this be a Latin reading of Etruscan names, and the filia, certainly looks like it, Larthia is 

 one such name, and represents LAPOIA. The Larthis, Larthias and Thanas of Etruria must 



