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denoted that which is offered to the gods. The forms egiun, egiku, 

 are also as ai'chaic as the mode of writing them. There are several 

 words that agree in general meaning ; age, appearance, indication, 

 egia, truth, igerri, to divine, the root ag, eg, ig, seeming to have the 

 meaning of, manifest. The diverse terminations U7io and ku or ko, I 

 do not profess to exfjlain.^"^ As difficult is the word kntuhiku. The 

 present word for lightning is chimista, chismista, chistmista, for 

 which I know of no etymology having been given. The Circassian 

 forms are cliohske, kopk. The Mizjejian uses a similar form, kehche, 

 for thunder, and the Lesgliian designates this accompaniment of 

 lightning, kutiburi and kokkubikidi . Pursuing the search among the 

 more distant Khitan, we find the Yeniseian Khitts calling " light- 

 ning " yekene-hok, ykende-bok, with which word Dr. Latham has 

 compared the Yukahirian b>ig-omhe. The persistent b-k appeal's 

 also in the Lesghian lanzvikuU, as vik. On the same p.ige of the 

 Sprach-Atlas accompanying Klaproth's Asia Polyglotta in which 

 bug-onshe is found, appears bug-ylbe, meaning a beard. Beai'd in 

 Basque is bizar ; hence biz is the equivalent of bug. Now in Van 

 Eys's dictionary under b'lzi, life, we meet with h'lzlu, pltztu, to light, 

 excite, resuscitate. Led use gives piztea as meaning " allumer, 

 I'allumer, ressusciter." The word biztu is biz with t,he verbal termi- 

 nation tu, and may or may not be related to bizi, life. This biz or 

 biztu, by one of the commonest intei'changes of labials has become 

 tnista, and the prefixed chist represents the old kutu. Had the origin 

 of the word remained in the memory of the Basques, they would 

 probably have retained the Etruscan term in the inverted form 

 bizkatu, like banakafM, kilikatu, and many words of the same for- 

 mation. The following ka is the postposition by. The name of 

 the haruspex and fulguriatoi- seems to be Altahola, Tldubala, the 

 relation of which to Atius or Fatius I leave to others to trace. 

 His name is governed by gogo, memory, in the genitive of position. 

 The final verb eritsi is in the infinitive to jar at the beginning of the 

 inscription. 



In the next bilingual, for the sake of aniformity, 1 have placed 

 the Etruscan below the T^atin, although the former is on the lid ot 

 the coffer and the latter on the side. 



108 Elsewhere I liave found FIS evidently a comiiound of egin and on, to do good or show 

 benevolence Here it niaj' be age o?i, to indicate gnod, or give good omens. In the second, 

 ageku, tlie last syllable takes the place of sa, an Etruscan particle denoting agency. 



