アキプ

Ainu

Alternative forms

アㇰ (Hokkaido)
アㇵカポ (Sakhalin)
アキボ (Kuril)

Etymology

Proto-Ainu *ak L (“younger brother”).^[1]

Noun

アキプ • (akipu)

(Kuril) younger brother

dialect table: younger brother (1964)^[2]
area	pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲)	ák, -í; 'áknekur
Horobetsu (幌別)	ák, -í
Saru (沙流)	ák, -í
Obihiro (帯広)	ák, -í
Bihoro (美幌)	ak, -i
Asahikawa (旭川)	ák, -i
Nayoro (名寄)	ák
Soya (宗谷)	ak, -íhi
Karafuto (樺太)	ahkapo, -ho
Chishima (千島)	akibo (135)

References

^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
^ 服部四郎 (Shirō Hattori) (1964) アイヌ語方言辞典 (Ainu Go Hōgen Jiten, “An Ainu Dialect Dictionary”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Japan: 岩波書店 (“Iwanami Shoten”)

DYBOWSKI のシュムシュ島アイヌ語資料について（第1部） (DYBOWSKI No Shumushu Tō Ainu Go Shiryō Ni Tsuite (Dai 1 Bu), “On DYBOWSKI's Shumshu Island Ainu Language Materials (Part 1)”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Fukuoka: 村山七郎 (Murayama Shichirō), 1970 (Kuril)