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AINU DIALECTS.
Schebu. | Ainu. | English. | |
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4. | Ninaussi | Nina-ushi | “Sole place.” |
5. | Notoro | Not-oro | “Having a blunt cape.” |
6. | Nubori-Endum | Nupuri entom Nupuri etomo |
“Mountain side.” |
7. | Otassu | Ota-shut | “Sand foot.” Shut is “the foot of a mountain.” |
8. | Piro-tzi | Pirotchi | “The cliffs.” |
9. | Pissjachssam | Pischa-sam | “The sea-side.” |
10. | Po-tomari | Pon-tomari | “The little harbour.” |
11. | Ssiranussi | Shiran-ushi | “Tide-place” or “rocky place.” |
12. | Ssirepa | Shiripa | “Land’s head,” or as we should say in English, “Land’s end.” |
13. | Ssoya | Soya Shoya |
“The land of bare rocks.” |
14. | Ssussucha | Susucha kotan Shuhucha kotan |
“The place of willows.” |
15. | Ssussuso | Susu-ush-nai Shusu-ash-nai |
“Willow glen” or “valley.” |
16. | Tomari-nai | Tomari-nai | “The harbour of the glen.” |
17. | Tomari-po | Tomaripo | “Little harbour” (Lit: “the child of the harbour).” |
18. | Tunaitscha | Tu-nai-cha | “The two valleys”—“double valley.” |
19. | Tyk | Tuk | “Projecting.” |
20. | Uen-kotan | Wen-kotan | “Bad place.”—(sometimes “bad” in the sense of “rocky” or “stony.”) |
Many other names might be given but the fore-going will suffice for the present purpose.