ケㇺ
Appearance
Ainu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Proto-Ainu *kEm L (“blood”).[1]
Compare sense 1 to Turkish kan (“blood”), Chuvash юн (jun); Nganasan кам (kam, “blood”), Northern Selkup кэм (kem, “blood”), Tundra Nenets хэмʼ (xem, “blood”).
Noun
[edit]ケㇺ • (kém)
Related terms
[edit]
area | pronunciation |
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Yakumo (八雲) | kém |
Oshamambe (長万部) | kém |
Horobetsu (幌別) | kém |
Hiratori (平取) | kém |
Nukkibetsu (貫気別) | kém |
Niikappu (新冠) | kém |
Samani (様似) | kém |
Obihiro (帯広) | kém |
Kushiro (釧路) | kém |
Bihoro (美幌) | kém |
Asahikawa (旭川) | kém |
Nayoro (名寄) | kém |
Soya (宗谷) | kém |
Ochiho (落帆) | kém |
Tarantomari (多蘭泊) | kém |
Maoka (真岡) | kém |
Shiraura (白浦) | kém |
Raichishka (ライチシカ) | kém |
Nairo (内路) | kém |
Etymology 2
[edit]Proto-Ainu *kem L (“needle”).[3]
Noun
[edit]ケㇺ • (kém)
Alternative forms
[edit]- キㇺ (Hokkaido, Soya)

area | pronunciation |
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Yakumo (八雲) | kém, -í |
Horobetsu (幌別) | kém |
Saru (沙流) | kém |
Obihiro (帯広) | kém |
Bihoro (美幌) | kem |
Asahikawa (旭川) | kém |
Nayoro (名寄) | kém |
Soya (宗谷) | kím |
Karafuto (樺太) | kem, -ihi |
Chishima (千島) |
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]ケㇺ • (kem)
Related terms
[edit]- ケメコッ (“to die of hunger, to starve to death”)
- ケㇺノイェ (“to die of hunger”)
- ケㇺラㇺ (“a famine”)
- ケムㇱ (“starving, famished”)
Etymology 4
[edit]Proto-Ainu *kEm (“to lick”).[5]
Verb
[edit]ケㇺ • (kem)
- (transitive) to lick.
References
[edit]- ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
- ^ 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”)
- ^ 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”)[2] (in Japanese), Japan: 岩波書店 (“Iwanami Shoten”)
- ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
- Batchelor, John (1926) An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
- 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―カラフト― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Karafuto River, “Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Karafuto River”)[3] (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 (Sakhalin)