Hokkaidō
抜海
ばっかい BakkaiBatchelor applies the expression to a rock on the coast.
Ainu spellings: Pakkai shuma
Analyses
Pakkai shuma
The stone which carries a child on its back
Proponent: John Batchelor
He describes a large coastal stone with a smaller stone leaning against it and compares them to a woman carrying a child.
Attestations
- Bakkai dictionary 1905 An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, 2nd edition
“The stone which carries a child on its back.”
The entry gives Batchelor’s analytical spelling and interpretation.
Batchelor1905 § V "Place Names Considered", p. 36, s.v. Bakkai
Sources
- An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary (including A Grammar of the Ainu Language)
Batchelor, John·1905