noype
Ainu
Alternative forms
- noybe
Etymology
From noy (“to twist, wind”) + -p (“thing”), literally “the twisting thing”. Sakhalin varieties have keyoroh (“brain”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nójꜜpè]
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