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13-16. VmiCM • A8VNAM • /ENONA • AmAFELOINA • A8VN "* 



bemiuchino ralapikarano banekamakara ramira aginsa maukara 



ralapika 



beimi oyeche no Ealapika rano bane gomu ekarri eramira aginza mai 



ekarri Ralapika 



subject these of Ralapika towards united memory bring causing to 



see offering tablet bringing Ralapika 



17-20. OVPVNI • EINJEPIVNACXA . OILOVNI VLOL • IX • CA "^ 



mabetubekau neuka ichentuube kara chigora mauasmabekago 



pisamasa ugo chira 



ambat begai nayago etsainta obe ekarri zigor mai asma begogo Pisa 



emaitza uko ezarri 



great regard I desire inimical chief to bear scourge tablet meaning 



regarding Pisa gift refusal throws 



heka ne or haki-ne I read as a form of the Basque baki-datu, communicate, the final ne being 

 the postposition "to." The sense would be clearer could VNE be read VYE, bekune, which is 

 the Etruscan for only, alone : " one only fails to honour." 



jabe tobe Man aintzi ; jabe, Etruscan kobe, is here used as a plural without sign, as in Japan- 

 ese. It is governed by tobe, a purely Etruscan word, answering to the Basque bidean, in place 

 of. It may be a compound of toki, place, and be, under. In Choctaw ulh-tobah means in place 

 of The auxiliary kian precedes the verb aintzi, now ainzindu, aitzindu, devaneer, prevenir. 



bakine etsain ra ichpichio : here bekane or baki-ne means to communicate. The following 

 word, :t:E, should, according to Front of Cippus, line 16, be 4:M, unless it be a different word 

 of like signification. It means to oppose, and the following ra euphoniously takes the place of 

 ne, to. 



nekian nochiu: for nochiu see line 1. The relative ne is probably omitted to avoid the repe- 

 tition of the same sound. Therefore nekian may be translated " which I did." 



Roma, now Erroma : the Basque form exhibits the peculiarity of that language as compared 

 with sister tongues, which I have illustrated in my papers as the Khitan languages, namely, 

 the pretixion of vowels to many words whose original initial letter was a consonant. 1 here is 

 no evidence that the Etruscans did the same. The Cippus evidently belongs to a period when 

 Etruria, although maintaining its ancient constitution, was in recogn'zed subjection to Rome. 



11* Lines 13-16. bemi oyeche no : the present Basque words for subject are mendeko, botoya. 

 This bemi is a compound of be, under, and imi, to place, meaning the same as subjeetus. In 

 Basque oyechek is "even these," and oyechen "ol even these." The Etruscan genitive is marked 

 by the stronger no. 



Ealapika rano, towards Ralapika. This is the name of the Lucumo, probably a native of 

 Perusia, in whose honour the Cippus was erected. Etruscan proper names, like the Basque 

 and American Khitan, seem to be significant. I leave the determination of their meaning to 

 Basque scholars. The name may read Aralbeka. 



bane gomu ekarri ; bane is the abbreviated form of banetu, answering to the Basque baiw. 

 The Etruscan gamu represents the gomu of the Basque goiinita, remembrance. Compare Etrus- 

 can gago and Basque gogo. The verb ekarri is used paiticipially. 



eramira aginza mai ekarri: the only word to note is eramira, which is not modern Basque. 

 It is, however, regularly formed by prefixing the causative era, as in eraman, erakarri, to the 

 verb mira, miratu. Ralapika is in the genitive of position to ambat begai. 



116 Lines 17-20. ambat begai : Basque lexicographers suppose awi to be the root of a7ii&at. 

 It is more probable that ain is a corruption of an original am, for the Basque is hardly tolerant 

 of the letter m, save at the beginning of a word. In Japanese omoi, meaning weighty, impor- 

 tant, great, seems to present the same root. As ambe, the Etruscan uses the word to represont 



