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The form maraka or marga harri has appeared in note 40. The 

 present word for join is hatu, derived from hat. one. As we have 

 found hemo or pimo to be the Etruscan form of bat, it is natural to 

 find its compound in such a shape as hanetu presents. This word is 

 very common in the Eugubine Tables, where it is impossible to 

 doubt its meaning. The auxiliary nuqueyen is the modern form of 

 the 1st sing, past conditional of dut, I should have had. Here it 

 must be read as precatory. 



The auxiliary of the present tense, pi or he occurs in the following. 



180. APNOI/IEYPV • /ip/lYANIA. 



artukamo u banekutu pi Batuba Kuraka ura 

 artugomu hau banekutu be Batuba Kuraka aur 

 memorial this communicate does Batuba Kuraka's ch.ild'^^ 



The word artugomu I have not met with in Basque, but it is a 

 perfectly admissible form, from artu hold, and gomuta remembrance. 

 I am in doubt about hanekutu, which should mean to execute. Fol- 

 lowing the analogy of hatu, hanetu, I query banekutu as an old form 

 of hakidatUy to communicate.^^ In the Eugubine Tables he is com- 

 mon for he has, does. The following presents hanekuia with a dif- 

 ferent termination : 



313. OVI • LAPO • /lEYDNI • LADOALl 



SA 



Mopiu zaratu ma banekutu kau zaratu ma rasa u 

 nora 



Mopio zarratu mai banekutu kio ; zarratu mai eritsa hau 

 andre 



Mopio engraved tablet communicate does; engraved tablet honours his 

 wife. 



The only word to nott; is the final kio of hanekutukio. It is the 

 termination of verbs conjugated without auxiliaries, to which I 

 referred under No. 20 in connection with kanio. The form kio is 

 but a variant of io. It serves to mark banekutu as a verb in the 

 third person singular, present indicative. 



318. niA • mlYPAE mira miukutura ne mii-a Miukutura n 

 LAPOI ■ AS zaratu mai rano zarratu mai rano 



Tran-ilation — Look towards the engraved tablet to Miukutura 



72 Pabretti reads A^AA instead of /IP/IY. This would make the name of the parent Baraka 



73 Banekutu is certainly not bankatu, for not only does that mean to separate, which gives 

 no sense, but it appears in the Eugubine Tallies as piinokaiu. The termination kutu is the 



