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Ainu
Etymology
From noy (“to twist, wind”) + -p (“thing”), literally “the twisting thing”. Sakhalin varieties have keyoroh (“brain”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
noype (Kana spelling ノィペ, possessed form noypehe)
- (anatomy) brain
References
- ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (2016) “On the Linguistic Prehistory of Hokkaidō”, in Gruzdeva Ekaterina, Janhunen Juha, editors, Crosslinguistics and Linguistic Crossings in Northeast Asia. Papers on the Languages of Sakhalin and Adjacent Regions (Studia Orientalia; 117), Helsinki, pages 29–38.
Further reading
- John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language), Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 293