PROCEEDINGS OP THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



5-8. 01 • SVLVml FAM/IELOIPENEOIEMY ACFELOINA "^ 



mau albeaspi mi go ager no banesa mautune kanemaunenoku rachi 



aginsa mau kara 



mai albo azpi imi go agerrian banaiz ema autune kian mai ne naga 



eritsi aginza mai ekarri 



tablet side under placing of information I am giving choose who did 



tablet to hate estimation oftering tablet bring 



9-12. ACILVNE YVPVNEMC VNETEAJVCI • ENESCI • AO "^ 



rachiusapikane kupitupikanenochi pikaneichenra ichpichio nekanen- 

 ochiu rama 



eritsi utsa bakine jabe tobe kian aintzi bakine etsain ra ichpichio 

 nekian nochiu Roma 



to esteem fails to communicate lords instead he did warn to com- 

 municate oppose to contribution I did request Rome 



gageure," but in Etruscan ichpi and ichpichio evidently denote a contribution. Tlie Japanese 

 tsuhu, a grain or morsel, is the equivalent of ichpi. 



ne kian nochiu : I do not recognize nochiu, in Basque, although its meaning " desire " is con- 

 tained in the verb Tiai. It answers to the Japanese nozo-mu, desire, wish for. The Japanese 

 verb corresponding to nai, nahi is negau. In Basque the auxiliary kia7i follows the verb as 

 in n-eraushian, the 1st sing. imp. ind. of erausi. Here it is attached to the pronoun. 



obi rmo, in Etruscan oha rano. The word obi, hohi means a grave, and forms obi-ratu, bury. 

 The Choctaw has tlie simpler form hoppih, bury. The postposition rano, towards, also occurs ' 

 as ra, rako, raJcano, ranoku. In Japanese it survives iu an old form ga-ri, towards. 



banaiz eragin: banaiz is now a modified 1st sing. pres. ind. of naiz, meaning "if I am." As I 

 have already stated, the Etruscan employs these forms constantly in a categorical sense. The 

 verb eragin is the present Basque equivalent of ANE, but see what I have said of the two 

 Etruscan verbs PE, egin, and NE, kane : note 49(x. 



112 Lines 5-8. nmi, the regimen of eragin. 



albo azpi imi go : the Basque albo was albe in Etruscan, and is the Choctaw alapa, side. 

 The postposition az}3i, often be or pi, means under, but here must rather signify on. The verb 

 imi, probably ini in Etruscan, is in Basque imini or ipini. It probably survives in the final 

 7ni and mu of Japanese derivative verbs, as in tsuka-mu, to grasp, from tsuka, a handle, ina 

 mu, to refuse, from ina, no. These will thus mean "to place a handle, to place a no," which 

 are thoroughly Etiusoan idioms. The Choctaw maia, maiachih, to put in, is a form of mi or 

 imi. Here the verb is participial, governed by go, the postposition " of." 



agerrian banaiz: the Urst word means "a decouvert" ; for banaiz, see end of line 1-4. 



ema autu ne kian : ema, now eman, give, makes emaiten in the infinitive, and emak, bema in 

 the imperative. Here it is used as an iuflnitive. It is the Choctaw imah. The verb autu, now 

 auta, autetsi, hautatu, is separated from its auxiliary kian by the relative ne, which modern 

 Basque preserves as final n or en. 



mai ne naga ; mai is in the dative "to ne," the postposition to, in. The following naga is the 

 Etruscan original of the Basque nagalti, detest. Van Eys says : " Co nom. verb, doit deriver 

 de naga ou nazka, que ne se trouvent pas." It is the Japanese niku-mu and the Choctaw nuk- 

 kiUih. Here naga, or in Etruscan nago, is in the infinitive to auta, or may form a compound 

 verb with the following eritsi, like oneritsi, to esteem, gaitzcritsi, hate. 



eritsi aginza mai ekarri : eritsi is here infinitive in form. 



118 Lines 9-12. eritsi utsa baki ne : the two Basque words utzi, to leave, and uiz, empty, 

 appear to have had a common origin. The Japanese ochi, ochiru, to fall, fail, leave, decline, is 

 evidently the same word. Here the meaning of utsa is " he lails," which in Basque would be 

 u'segin da. In Etruscan apparently utsi, to fail, dispensed with the auxiliary, and in the 3 

 •slug. pres. ind. became utsa. The preceding eritsi is in the infinitive to xiisa. The following 



