ETRURIA CAPTA. 205 



248. AVLE • VLOE • FELNA 



rapi sune pisa mone aginsakara 



arpi zueu Pisa amona aginza akar 



behold ye who Pisa's mother offering bears*^ 



The only word to note is amona, a dignified name for mother. 

 Pisa must be a feminine name. 



32.2. ADNO artukamo artiigomu 



LADIC * CALEC zaratu utzi. chirasa nechi zarratu hitz Chirasa nechi 

 holds memory written word Chirasa's daughter 



The word for daughter is now nesca, a less dignified term than 

 alaha. 1 have read IC as h'tz, word. In the Eugubine Table hitz 

 is represented by K. 



266. OVMVNEI mopinopi kanio Mopinopi ganio 



8VLNI aljDisa kau alabichi kiko 



Mopinopi it concerns, daughter for.'* 



The postposition kau occurs frequently in the Eugubine Tables, as 

 in eman dio pabe ka,u, give he him does help for, where it can mean 

 nothing else than for. It is thus the Etruscan representative of the 

 modern Basqiie kiko.^^ 



269. AO ■ Cp rama chitu erama Chitu 



ES /I E nenobane ne nebi ne 



A/IIAS rabaurano arreba hau rano 



it brings Chitune brother to sister his towards 

 Freely — It brings to Chitune's brother the memory of his sister.'^ 



There are two new words here. The first is erama from the Basque 

 vei'b eratnan, cause to give, or bring. The second is noha, now nebia, 

 brother, although anai, anaya is the commoner form. 



52 Fabretti inserts an archaic S between zuen and Pisa. This will make the name Nopisa. 

 Ekarri should read akar, as dakar is the 3 sing. pres. ind. of ekarri. Etruscan does not pre- 

 fix the d. 



53 Lanzi rejiresents this inscription, which is boustrophedon. with the lower line upside 

 down. Fabretti reverses the order by inverting the upper line. He also gives instead of V in 

 the lower line a heart-shaped figure. 



5* I have been asked how T get kau or, following the analogy of the verbal termination, hio, 

 out of kiko, which is supposed to have been originally kinko. I do not assert that they are the 

 same words, but that a resurrected Etruscan would replace his kio by the Basque kiko. The 

 Iroquois uses ke to signify " for." 



s= In Fabretti the S of line 2 and /I of line 3 are irreoognizable. The word noia is disap- 

 pointing in form. Nebia, the modern word, would be better represented by EV. It has few 

 near relations, the closest being the Georgian miichbe and the Choctaw nakfi, the brother of a 

 sister. 



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