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modern Basque I know of no verbs oa-etnan and oa-ten, but oartu 

 compounded of oar and artu^ attention and take or pay, means 

 observe, perceive, pay attention. The root of oar and oartu is plainly 

 oa or oha, as appears in the Japanese verb uyamai, to honour, 

 reverence, worship. ^^ The final ten is the commoa termination of 

 verbs, ematen, egiten, edaten, &c. 



of the engravers to cause characters to do double duty. The first N of the inscription belongs 

 to the name, and should be repeated to make with El the common formula kanio. It is pos- 

 sible that the repetition of the same syllable was, for euphony's sake, not allowed in Etruscan 

 speech, and that the engravers wrote the language as it was spoken. In English we do the 

 same thing by omitting the possessive after many words ending in s, both in speaking and in 

 writing. For the meaning of Eginezaumika, see additicmal Bilinguals, No. 1496, page 215. 



^5 As in these pages reference is frequently made to the relationship of the Basque, and thus 

 of the Etruscan, to the Japanese and other languag'es, which I have classified under the name 

 Khitan, I have thrown together in this note a few evident examples of relationship between 

 the Basque and the Japanese, and between the Choctaw and these two lang'uag'es. For the 

 relations of the Caucasian tongues and those of the Iroquois and Aztec, I refer to my two 

 papers on the Khitan languages already sufficientlj' indicated. 



SOME SUPERFICIAL RESEMBLANCES OP JAPANESE AND BASQUE WORDS. 



