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ANCIENT JAPANESE AND AINU COMPARED.
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Province. But the Ainu have no other word for “knife” of the kind intended. It is the common word for knife in Saghalien Island.
| japanese. | ainu. |
|---|---|
| Nobori, “a hill.” | Nupuri, “a mountain.” There is no other word in Ainu by which a great mountain can be designated. The roots of this word are nup, “plain,” u, a plural particle, and ri “high.” Nupuri may therefore mean either, “cast up from the plains”; or “cast up plains.” |
| Nomi, “to worship." | Nomi, “to offer libations.” |
| Nu, “to be.” | Ne, “is.” |
| Nuru, “to paint.” | Nore, “to paint.” |
| Nusa, anciently, “pieces of silk or paper or bamboo used as offering to the gods.” | Nusa, “offerings of whittled sticks and shavings made to the gods and demons.” Nusa is a plural word the singular of which is inao. Inao is from the root ina, “a message,” “a prayer”; and o, “to bear.” Hence inao is simply a “message” or “request “bearer,” nusa being its plural form.[1] |
| Ogi, “a fan.” | Anki; Anunki; Aungi, “a fan.” Translated literally an-un-ki, means “to do unto,” probably referring to the process of drawing the fan to ones'self. Both forms of the word are used in both Yezo and Saghalien. |
| Omushi, “the place where the Emperor sits.” | Om-ushi;[2] “a seat.” The roots are om, the “thighs,” and ushi, “a putting place.” |
