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separate words. Me is related to mene, murie, 

 mete and miite, all of which are used as pro- 

 nouns. The meaning required here is which. 

 Te is often used as an enclytic conjunction, 

 exactly answering to the Greek re ; but here it 

 is joined to the following instead of the pre- 

 ceding word. 



The terminations of the next three nouns in 

 u after the verb itepetute establish another case 

 in the declension of the nouns. We have in 

 No. 5 (Fellows, pi. 36) lada as the nominative ; 

 the common phrase, urppe lade se tedeeme, and 

 this form ladu, supply either the ablative and 

 dative, or the instrumental and dative if we 

 adopt the oriental cases. In No. 25 we have 

 ladu as a plural after urppe, and in No. 18 (which 

 is very imperfect and doubtful) ladue seems to 

 be used as the dative plural. 



The word kwe, the second of the third line, 

 reminds us strongly of the relative pronouns 

 in other Indo-European languages; teke has 

 already been translated tomb at page 237, and 

 atlaue is a case of atle, self; these give a 

 reasonable meaning to this short phrase. The 

 rest is still unknown. The word kweyeue is per- 

 haps the dative plural of the relative kwe, and 



