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2. AniEFAXDLAVYN • FELOINAM • E "» 

 eramine ager gotu sarabe kuka aginsa maukarano ne 

 erimini agerri katu zarrapo egoki aginza mai ekarri no ni- 



cause to place declare writing suitable offering tablet bringing of I 



3. MYLAA8VNAMSLELELEOCAPV119 

 nokusararalapikaranonosanesanesanemachiratupi 



-on ikusi ra Ralapika rano nas antsa antsa ne ema jar tobe 



him did see cause Ralapika towards together caring care to giving 



attention instead of 



4. YEtAN8VMLEPIYESNMYEIMi20 

 kuneichrakalabenosatietuukunenokanokuneuno 

 gune itclierik albo nas nitixo gune noku naga ne on 



us to adhering side together 1 to them do us to failing hates who good 



"8 Line 2. eriinini agerrikatu zarrapo egoki. The verb erimiyii is not Basque, but it is 

 reg-ularly compounded of the causative era and imini. It is iij the infinitive to gure. The 

 following agerrikatu should perhaps be igorri-katu, send, which will remove the syntactical 

 difficulty- of leavin.o- zarrapo egoki without a governing word. Neither agerri-katu nor igorri- 

 katu are Basque words, but katu is a common termination of Basque verbs, as in igeri-katu, to 

 swim. Etruscan zarabe, Basque zarrapo, scratching, writing, is used as a synonym of zarratu. 

 The Choctaw verbs to scratch are sJmluffih, kaluffih. YN is always the Etruscan form for 

 egoki. 



aginza iiiai ekarri no, has appeared so frequently' as to need no farther explanation. The 

 final ni belongs to the next line. 



"8 Line 3. nion ikusi ra ; nion is good Basque, " I it to him did." The following ikusi ra is 

 an inversion of erakusi, cause to see, instruct. I know of no corresponding Basque form of 

 ikusi, but ikasi, to learn, becomes causative not only as erakasi, but also as ikasarazi. 



RaUqnka rano, needs no further explanation. 



nas antza antza ne ; nas, Etruscan nosa, nasa, is still employed in one Basque dialect to 

 mean together. It is evidently a compound word, as the Japanese represents it by issho-ni. 

 The following antza repeated superlatively I cannot explain. The usual form of a7itsi to care 

 for is EC, and here the word is plainly in the infinitive to ne. 



ema jar tobe: here jar and eman come together as in the Basque word jaramon, faire cas 

 de, faire attention. It seems to be used participially as "giving attention." The adverbial 

 postposition tobe, instead of, has been considered. 



12U Line 4. gune itcherik : gu was the Etruscan pronoun, we, as it is the Basque, but in the 

 dative it takes ne instead of ri. In some of the sepulchral inscriptions appears the long form 

 itchekirik, from itcheki, to hold to, adhere. The final rik, of which r is for euphony, forms 

 partitives and ablative absolutes. Here it seems to form a verbal adjective, adhering. 



albo nas nituo ; albonas is in this place used as a compound verb with the auxiliary. The 

 Etruscan had a pronominal form of dut in nio, answering to the Basque diot, as well as one in 

 7iau agreeing with the Basque nau. This nio, I to him do, is here in the plural of the regimen, 

 nituo, I to them do, which answers to nio as naute does to nau. 



gune noku naga ne ; gune is the prorioun "we" in the dative. The following noku has for its 

 subject the ne, who, following naga. It survives in Basque as the noun noku, defect, and 

 seems the same as the Jajjanese nai, naku, which with the auxiliary naru, means, to fail. In 

 Etruscan it was noka and took rank as a verb. Here it should be in the 3 sing. pres. ind. 

 without auxiliary. Its neighbour naga, in Etruscan noku, means, as has already appeared, to 

 hate or opi^ose. It also is in the 3 sing. pres. ind. without auxiliary. The final on, in Etruscan 

 ono, the adjective "good" belongs to the next line. 



