亜別 あべつ Abetsu
Biratori, Hidaka region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Ap-pet
The article reads the Abetsu of Biratori with the same element it reads into the Atsubetsu of Hidaka.
Location
42.5902, 142.1476 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-10, on 亜別橋. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- river The Abetsu River in Biratori
Analyses
a-pet
アペツ ‘sitting river’ received reading- a ‘sit’
- pet ‘river’
Proponent: 定説
Objections
- There are no parallel names of this shape. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek…
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 ‘winding river’ proposedProponent: 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'.
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
‘The river tine’ proposed- A ‘prong of a fork, tine’
- pet ‘river’
Proponent: John Batchelor
A is a prong of a fork or tine: pet is river.
Batchelor's reading and gloss as printed in 1905; the segmentation is his, and several of its elements answer to no dictionary headword.