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15. NA/lEPMPANCtL0II8ALMYI ■ F i^i 

 karabanetu noturaka chiichsamatalarasanokuu ag 

 ekarri banetu ondoreak chiotssa emat lurreznokoi ag- 



to bring uniting descendants let them to him give tumulus 



16. ELOINABVY • NA/lEP • /tENEJM i^^ 

 nesamaukaraulpiku karabanetu banekaneiohno 



-inza mai ekarri al beko ekarri banetu bane kian etsain 



offering tablet to bring powerful lords to bring uniting to join he did 



oppose 



Basque use of auxiliaries. Celts who speak English imperfectly frequently employ the present 

 participle with the verb substantive instead of the direct present. The verb imbe is not 

 Basque, but in Etruscan regularly takes the place of bialdu and irion. It occurs very often 

 in the Eugubine Tables, and in every case satisfies the sense in this signification. If it be al- 

 lowable at this stage to suggest etymologies, I would be disposed to see in imbe a compound 

 of ini, imini, to place, and bide, a way. In Ciioctavv pi as a radical denotes a way, as in 

 pimiiia, that way, pillah, away yonder. The same language renders the Basque ibilli, march 

 by bal-uUih, of which the latter part is the verb ulah, to come. The Basque ibilli may by 

 analogy be regarded as a compound of el, eldu, to come, and a primitive ib, bi, be, the root of 

 bide, a way. 



The final kio, in Etruscan kaii, is the 3 sing. pres. ind. sign of verbs conjugated without 

 auxiliary. 



zazu naiku rnira nabe : for zazu, see line 12. EY, neku, negu is the commonest form of nai, 

 iiahi, in Etruscan ; it agrees with zazu. Of the two following words one must be a noun and 

 the other a verb, but their simple forms do not indicate which is one and which the other. 

 In Basque mira means astonishment ; but it should rather be admiration. The word nabe 

 means a plain in Basque, and nabari means to perceive from afar. In Japanese nobe and 

 nobara designate a plain or moor, but n tbe, noberu, nobashi jnean to extend, stretch, lengthen, 

 reach out. In this passage nabe may mean to extend, or mira nabe may be a compound word 

 denoting- wide or extensive admiration. The chief objection to the latter reading is that it 

 places the adjective after the noun. 



131 Line 15. ekarri banetu, uniting- to bring. 



ondoreak : it is rare to find M and S representing initial on, un, which generally require a 

 prefixed I as in IS ono, good. In a Celtiberian inscription, however, I have found MP for 

 ondo. This ondo, though perhaps modelled upon the Spanish hondo, deep, is a genuine 

 Basque word. In Japanese it is inverted as ato-ni, with the significations after, behind, pos- 

 terity, descendants, remains, ruins. This Japanese ato-ni is to ondo as issho-ni is to nas. 

 The Circassian yeytahney, after, agrees with the Japanese ato-ni. It is most improbable that a 

 loan word should have so many compounds as oyido has in Basque. 



chiotssa emat : I do not know chiotssa, or more correctly chiichsa, as a Basque pronominal 

 auxiliarj'. He them to him does, is diotza ; the}^ it to him do, is cioten ; and let them do, is 

 bezate. I suppose chiichsa, eietssa, cietsza, to be a eomj)ound imperative, " let them to him 

 do." For emat, see line 10. 



lurreznokoi : lurrenokoi and tnaranokoi have appeared in the short inscriptions. I ha^'e 

 queried koi as answering to the Japanese koya, a small house or chamber. Thus lurre has 

 virtually two genitive signs like the Basque lurrezko. An earthen chamber must be a tumulus, 

 the common mark of honour to the dead among the Khitan, as seen in the Pictish barrows of 

 Britain, and the mounds of Siberia and North America. 



132 Line 16. aginza mai ekarri al beko : al is probably here used as an adjective, powerful, 

 rather than as a noun denoting the Dominion in the genitive to beko. For beko, see notes on 

 Left Side of Cippus, line 21. It must be in the plural without sign. 



ekarri banetu, uniting- to bring. 



