1 74 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



46. A . CEICNA • CAS/IV • L • CVPIAL • PIL • X • • • 

 Translit. — ra • cineucikara • cira no bapi • sa chipitu u rasa tu usa X • • • 

 Basque — ara Sinhetsikara Zeru en bapi so chipitu hau eritsa du atso X • ' • 

 Translal. — see Sinhetsikara Zeru of father behold little one this esteems has 



age X • ■ ■ 

 Freely — Behold Sinhetsikara, Zeru's father, (how) this little one he honours ; 



aged X ■ ■ • 



The word ara, with, emen, here, and an, there, makes the equiva- 

 lents of voici and voilk. Another word for look is so, as a verb 

 so-egin. The proper name Sinhetsikara is capable of translation, 

 being Sinhetskor, the believer, or Sinhetsgarri, the pledge. I shall 

 afterwards give a good reason for rendering the girl's name by Zeru, 

 heaven, a common element in Basque as in American Indian names. 

 It is in the genitive, like hunen in 42. The Etruscan word bapi, 

 father^ is now only used by Basque children, being replaced generally 

 by aita. It is probably the same word as habe, pabe, a support. The 

 word for a little one is still chipi, and chi2nta means infancy. Hau 

 seems to have demonstrative power. The woi'd rendered ril by so 

 many Etruscologists, and on which so many theories have been 

 founded, is a compound of du has, or da is, and atso. The latter 

 word now means old and relates only to women, but in Etruscan 

 times it seems to have been generally applied. Unhappily the 

 inscription is imperfect, so that the confirmation of the deceased's 

 childhood is wanting. It is also hard to tell whether Sinhetsikara 

 or chipitu is the subject of the verb.''^ 



caput, German kopf, Erse ceap, shew the same root, equally with the Japanese kobe and kxiM. 

 The Etruscan word was probably of the same form as the Japanese, but in modern Basque has 

 degenerated to jabe. 



45 The Sinhetsgarri family is that which has, on apparently incontestible evidence, been 

 regarded as the Licinian gens, in which Caecina was a surname. One objection to this is that 

 Licinius, so far as I know, never accompanies this name on the monuments. Again, Ceicna 

 and Caecina, although somewhat alike, are not the same words, the vowel i in the latter being 

 long. And Caecina, Cecina, Sisenna, are purely Basque words, being forms of Zuzena, the 

 upright, just, equitable. The name appears as far back as 1130 B.C. in the form Sihusuni, in 

 the title of a Hittite king of Commagene, Sarupin-Sihusuni : Trans. Soe. Bib. ArchiBol., vol. 

 VII., p. 291; subCiti-Anteru. The apparently incontestible evidence is that presented by six 

 inscriptions, 308-313 in Fabretti, three of which are in Etruscan, and three in Latin characters. 

 They are as follow : 



308. A ■ CEICNA • CAS / V • L ■ CVPIAL ■ PIL • X . . . 

 ara Sinhetzkara Zeru no bapi so chipitu au eritza du atso X . . . 



312. . . . CAECINA ■ Q. F. CASPO • VIX. ANNO. X (X) 



309. CEICNA • A. YLA / VNI • AFILM 

 Sinhetzkara ara Kusara bapi kau irago atso no 

 Sinhetzkara beheld Kusara father for passes age no 



.311. L. CAECINA • L. F. TLARONT • VIX • ANN(0)8 ■ XXX 



