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Jap’se Pronunciation.	Ainu Form.	Derivation and Meaning.
		nai, “the valley of cliffs.” Chi, the plural particle is sometimes contracted int t, hence this name is sometimes heart as Pirot-nai.
Birofune Berufune	Piro-puni-kotan	“The place of raised cliffs.” Puni means “lifted up.”
Birotsunai	Piro-chi-nai	“The valley of cliffs,” the particle chi being a plural ending to the noun pira. Cha, chi and t are all plural endings.
Byei Biei	Piye-pet	“The river fat.” Piye is the word used for the fat of birds and animals, and in this instance the name has reference to the colour and density of the water in the river so called.”
Chietomai	Chi-etu-oma-i	“The place containing the sharp cape.” Chietu, “a sharp cape,” oma, “containing,” i, “place.” A blunt cape would be chinot.
Chikabira	Chikap-pira	“Bird cape.”
Chikanai	Chik-an-nai	“Dripping valley.” Chik-an is the intransitive form of Chik, “to drip.”
Chikaputomushi	Chikap-toma-ushi	“The place of the yellow star of Bethlehem,” (Gagea lutea Roem, et Sch.)
Chikabumi	Chikap-uni	“The home of the birds.” Said to have been so named because storks and other large kinds of birds used to breed here in great numbers.
Chikauchi	Chi-a-ot-i	“The dripping place.”
Chikisappu	Tuk-e-sap	“The projecting descents.”
Chinomibetsu	Chinomi-pet	“Libation river.”
Chin	Chin-kotan	This may mean either “the stretched out village” or “pelvis village.”
Chinshibetsu	Chin-shipet	“The great river pelvis”
Chiribetsu	Chiri-pet	“Ditch river,” or “ditch waters.”