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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



England by sailors and soldiers whose service led them into the 

 Basque provinces, and who, as Jingo, has become a British war-god. 

 Jainko is composed of jaun, jam, lord, master, a synonym of jabe, 



hone, bone 



ifiiku, fuku, clothes 



iya, not 



kokoro, kokoohi, heart, feelings 



kusaml, stink 



mageru, to bend 



miko, prince 



rufn, spread, extend 



sakebu, to shout 



sarami, sour 



shigei, thick 



shimesu, to moisten 



suteru, to reject 



foni 



fohkah, to dress, nafohka, clotlies 



ik 



cliukush 



kosomah 



bikullih 



miko 



hlapa 



shakapah 



ho mi 



shokkoh 



shummichih 



shittile-mah 



THE SAME OF CHOCTAW AND BASQUE. 



Choctaw. 

 a'iuhlika, power 

 alapalika, beside 

 baiullih, march 

 banoh, bat, beka, only 

 bikullih, to bend 

 bohpolih, to sling 

 bok, river 



bulbahah, to speak strangely 

 bushah, cut, mown 

 chahah, high 

 chipinta, very small 

 eholuk, a hole 

 ehukush, mind, heart 

 chula, a fox 

 fala, a crow 

 hoppih, to bury 

 ibawechih, to help 

 ik, not 



illi, death, dead 

 imah, to give 

 kaluffih, to scratch 

 koffona, humpback 

 nukillih, to hate 

 okpolusbih, dusky 

 okyuhlih, swim 

 olbul, behind 

 olubih, to take forcibly 

 shauwa, brushwood 

 ulah, to come 

 ulla, child 



Basque. 

 al, ahal 

 alboan 

 ibilli 



banaka, apart, bat, one, bakar, alone 

 makurtu 



abal, habela, a sling * 



ibai 

 barbar 



ebaki, epaitzen 

 goi 



chipi, small 

 zulo 

 gogo 



azari, acheri 

 bele 



hobi, a grave 

 pabeza, help, support 



il, hil 



eman, emaiten 



karrapo, zarrapo, scratching 



gupia 



nagatu 



uspel, discoloured by a bruise 



igeri 



gibel ^ 



arrapatu 



zapar 



el, hel 



aurra 



The Choctaw furnishes an explanation of the Etruscan subulo, a flute player, which I com- 

 pared with the Basque chambolin, a player on the tambourine, in the verb olah, olachih, to 

 play on an instrument. Thus, ahlepah, being indifferently a drum or a fiddle (I follow the 

 lexicon of a native Choctaw, the Rev. Allen Wright), makes alepah olachi, a fiddler, and 

 ahlepahboli, a drummer. This olah, olachih, must be the Basque ola, olatu, which now means 



