アㇺ

Ainu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Proto-Ainu *am L (“fingernail”).[1]

Noun

アㇺ • (am)

  1. claw, talon
  2. fingernail or toenail
  3. (Kuril, South Kuril) nail

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ám/, [ʔám]
dialect table: claw (1960)[2]
area pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲) 'ám
Oshamambe (長万部) 'ám
Horobetsu (幌別) 'ám
Hiratori (平取) 'ám
Nukkibetsu (貫気別) 'ám
Niikappu (新冠) 'ám
Samani (様似) 'ám
Obihiro (帯広) 'ám
Kushiro (釧路) 'ám
Bihoro (美幌) ham
Asahikawa (旭川) 'ám
Nayoro (名寄) 'ám
Soya (宗谷) 'ám
Ochiho (落帆) 'aɴ,-m
Tarantomari (多蘭泊) 'am
Maoka (真岡) 'am
Shiraura (白浦) 'am
Raichishka (ライチシカ) 'am
Nairo (内路) 'am

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
  2. ^ 服部四郎・知里真志保 (Shirō Hattori & Mashiho Chiri) (1960) 『アイヌ語諸方言の基礎語彙統計学的研究』「民族學研究」 (Ainu Go Shohōgen No Kiso Goi Tōkeigaku Teki Kenkyū, A Lexicostatistic Study on the Ainu Dialects)[1] (in Japanese), Japan: 日本文化人類学会 (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology)
  • Batchelor, John (1926) An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
  • Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)[2], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)