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the same as the Japanese shiba, brushwood, and the Choctaw shauwa, 

 brush, bushes. Perliaps chibe or shibe was the Etruscan form, being 

 a variant of chipi, little, to denote undergrowth. Were the meaning 

 of the Latin Arria clear, some connection might be found for Kuagi, 

 or better, Goegi. If it be an expedient for arrigo, then go egi will 

 be an allowable form of goititu, elever, and a sufficient translation of 

 the mother's name. 



Fabretti 794. L • PHISIVS • L • LAVCI 

 LEVCLE • ^ISTS • LAFYNI 



From Fabretti's various readings I have only adopted Y in the 

 last group instead of a doubtful T. 



su lie pi chi sune mai iinouno sari egi kukau 

 zuen Pisisu ne mai on oan Sari-egi egokio 

 ye who Pisisu to tablet ? Sari-egi belongs. 



This inscription has been intentionally obscured in meaning, for 

 the pui'j)ose of putting an apparent Phisis into the Etruscan text. 

 If this be not the case, how is it that all the bilinguals do not yield 

 to the same key ? In the same way ztoen is placed before the true 

 Pisisu, to make it look like Levcle, reproducing Lauci. This Lauci 

 is a barbarous disguise of latcs, for Sari-egi, from sari and egin, 

 means praise, or praising. The unusual verbal form onoono, or 

 ouoan, is similar to that of jomi, to go, jan, to eat. It is probably a 

 compound of on, good, and an old verb, oan, to pay attention or 

 regard, answering to the Japanese uyamai, which is now represented 

 in Basque by o-artu. The inscription will thus read: "Ye who 

 kindly regard the tablet to Pisius, to Sari-egi it belongs." 



Fabretti 460. C ■ CASSIVS ■ C • F • SATVRNINVS 

 F • CFSt I ■ C • CLAIY 

 age chiagnoitchu chi chisarauku 

 age Chiagnoichio age Isats arauki 

 behold Chiaganichio, behold Isats conformable 



This text is far from clear. The C which stands alone in the 

 third place should, I think, be F agi, for che, even, is always an 

 affix. The final lY in my copy are so close to one another as to 

 suggest that they repi-esent an original N. In this case raka, now 

 rako, towards, would take the place of the uncommon arauki, con- 

 formable. The most important word is CL, which I read isats, but 

 which originally must have been chisa, inasmuch as it is the Etruscan 



