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Biratori, Hidaka region, Hokkaidō

亜別

あべつ Abetsu

The article reads the Abetsu of Biratori with the same element it reads into the Atsubetsu of Hidaka.

Ainu spellings: Ap-pet

Analyses

a-pet

アペツ

received reading

sitting river

Proponent: 定説

Objections

zenibako_trek2025 「亜別（あべつ）」
Analysis details
Confidence: low

The article reports the reading and the absence of parallels, without a gloss for what a sitting river would be.

ap-pet

アッベツ

proposed

winding river

Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))

The same reading the author gives to the Atsubetsu of Hidaka at Atsuga, where he derives the sense of ap from nut-ap 'the bend of a river'.

zenibako_trek2025 「亜別（あべつ）」
Analysis details
Confidence: low

pet is a dictionary word in the sense used; the sense of ap the reading needs is the author's, the dictionary sense being 'fishhook'.

A-pet

proposed

The river tine

Proponent: John Batchelor

A is a prong of a fork or tine: pet is river.

Batchelor1905 § V "Place Names Considered", s.v. Abetsu
Analysis details
Confidence: low

Batchelor's reading and gloss as printed in 1905; the segmentation is his, and several of its elements answer to no dictionary headword.

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