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弁慶ナツボ べんけいなつぼ Benkeinatsubo

Yoichi, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

Ainu spellings: Perkei

A shore name at the foot of Shiriba-yama, carried as a formal sub-district name.

Referents

  • settlement The shore at the foot of Shiriba-yama where the large rocks stand and a cleft splits the rock. 字弁慶ナツボ was the formal sub-district name of the time.

Analyses

perke-i

ペㇾケイ ‘split place’ proposed
  • perke ‘be split, be cracked’
  • i ‘place’

Proponent: 諸説

The article reports the reading of ベンケイ as perke-i and of ナツボ as 魚坪 without naming who holds them, and states that neither is settled.

Confidence: low

perke is a dictionary word in the sense used and there is a cleft in the rock at the place. The source names no proponent and marks the reading as unsettled; the second element is unexplained.

zenibako_trek… ベンケイナツボ

Sources

zenibako_trek…