226 PROCKEDINQS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



21. CEXAtLLVXE"6 



chinegora ich ugo begone 

 ohingar etsaigo beko ne 

 spark enmity of prince to 



Front of Cippus. 



1. EVLNY • YA- • NNA • LAPEJLVi" 

 nepisakaku kura kakara saratu ne ichsa be 

 ni Pisa gogo gure kakara zarratu ne itsas be 

 I Pisa's mind desiring states writing to adhesion under 



the adjective great. Here, as in Basque, cmibat seems to mean "so much, how much." The 

 following begai is Etruscan, not Basque, which has the verbs begiiatu and begistatu, meaning 

 to regard. It is evidently a noun, signifying regard, esteem. 



nayago etsain a obe ekarri zigor : nayago is a comparative of 7iai, meaning " rather desire," or 

 "prefer" ; the pronoun ne is omitted, perhaps because the word in Etruscan begins with ne. 

 The verbal adjective etsainta I do nut know in Basque, but etsain-tasnn is the noun " enmity." 

 It is spelt in this place as in lines 9-12, tB. The noun obe means literally " better," and in its 

 use answers to the Greek aristevs and Latin optimas. In the Eugubine Tables it frequently 

 replaces jabe. The verb ekarri is in the infinitive to nayago, whit;b also governs obe. The last 

 word, zigor, was probably zigo -a in Etruscan. 



mai asma begogo : asma, signification, governs mai in the genitive by position. This genitive 

 of position is not uncommon in Japanese, and is the xisual form in Choctaw and many other 

 Khitan languages. The verb begogo, Etruscan begago, is not Basque. It seems to be a com- 

 pound of gogo, the mind, rather than of begi, tte eye, and to mean considering. It answers in 

 signification to the Basque behatu, the be of which is doubtless the be of begogo. 



Pisa emaitza, in Etruscan emats : Pisa is governed in the genitive by emaitza, which is gov- 

 erned in the same way by the following, uko, refusal, denial. 



ezarri ; thus I read CA, which characters often stand for zeru, heaven, and for an Etruscan 

 word, the nearest to which in signification is the Basque jVirri. Here the sense calls for a verb 

 moaning to place or throw, both of which significations are included in ezarri. It is here con- 

 jugated without regular auxiliary, and following the analogy of ekarri, should be ezar. 



lis Line 21. chingar etsai go beko ne : ohingar, in Etruscan perhaps chinegora, means, a 

 spark. The initial chi may represent su, fire, which appears in the Lesg-hian dialects as zi, za, 

 zo. The Japanese word for flre is hi, and hinoko is a spark. But the same language preserves 

 su as a word for flre in subitsu, the hearth, sumi, charcoal. The noun eUai now means an 

 enemj-, and etsaigo, enmity. There is no doubt, however, that the word should be read etsai 

 go, of enmity, because its regimen chingar precedes it, and thus demands the postposition. 



The word beko followed by the postposition ne, to or in, is not Basque. It appears in a Celt- 

 iberian inscription in the form Roma beka, replacing Roma jabe. It must, therefore, be an 

 Etruscan and ancient Basque word for prince, connecting with the present bekoki, which Van 

 Eys renders "front, audace." It is the same word as the Japanese and Choctaw miko, a 

 prince, chief or governor. Immediately above it in the Choctaw dictionary appears inika or 

 bika, both answering to the Basque biga or miga, two. 



"'■ Cippus of Perusia. Front, line 1. This line is defaced in the part of the first group which 

 I have restored as LN, and in the end of the last group where I read LV. 



ni Pisa gogo gure. The ni, I, is at once the subject of the participial gure and the verb 

 agerrikatu in the second line. Pina is in the genitive of position to gogo. The word gure is 

 used as a participle, desiring, and governs erimini in the next line in the infinitive. 



kakara, the states, without sign of pluralitj', has been referred to in lines 1-4, left side. It 

 is in the genitive of position to zarratu. 



zarratu ne itsas be : zarratu is employed as a noun in the dative to ne. In Basque itsaskor, 

 from ich, means adhering. In this place itsas is used as a noun and is governed by be, under, 

 the whole signifying "under adhesion." 



