ユプ
Ainu
Etymology
Borrowed from Nivkh юпть (jupț, “to tie”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /júꜜpù/
Verb
ユプ (Latin spelling yupu, plural ユㇷ゚パ, causative ユㇷ゚ケ)
- to tighten
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