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Ainu
Etymology
From paro (“mouth”) + un (“locative particle”) + pe (“thing”), literally “thing in mouth”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /páɾꜜùmpè/, /páɾꜜùnpè/
Noun
parunpe (Kana spelling パルンペ)
- (anatomy) tongue
References
- 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 338
- Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies, volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93