メノコ

Ainu

Noun

メノコ (Latin spelling menoko)

(Hokkaido, Kuril, South Kuril) woman (adult human female)

Alternative forms

マッ (Kuril, North Kuril)

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 女の子.

Pronunciation

dialect table: woman (1960)^[1]
area	pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲)	menokó,mátnekur
Oshamambe (長万部)	menokó
Horobetsu (幌別)	menokó,mát
Hiratori (平取)	menokó
Nukkibetsu (貫気別)	menokó
Niikappu (新冠)	menokó
Samani (様似)	menokó
Obihiro (帯広)	menokó
Kushiro (釧路)	menokó
Bihoro (美幌)	menokó
Asahikawa (旭川)	menokó,matáynu
Nayoro (名寄)	menokó,mát
Soya (宗谷)	menéko
Ochiho (落帆)	mahnekuh
Tarantomari (多蘭泊)	maynepo
Maoka (真岡)	mahtekuh
Shiraura (白浦)	mahneku
Raichishka (ライチシカ)	mahtekuh
Nairo (内路)	mahnekuh

References

^ 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”)

単語リスト（アイヌ語・日本語）―石狩川― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Ishikari River, “Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Ishikari River”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, “Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture”), 2014 (Hokkaido)

Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)‎^[3], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)