チカパネ岬 ちかぱねみさき Chikapane
Bikuni, Shakotan, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Cikapuni, Cikapanei
The most striking of the seven capes at Itagiriishi, where a white ash slope clings to the middle of a large landslip.
Referents
- mountain A cape near the 148 m point on the municipal pasture at Fumi, carrying a large landslip with a white ash slope on it. It appears on no modern map; the article takes the name from Megata Tatewaki's 北海道歴検図, the one source that records it as a cape name.
Analyses
cikap-un-i
チカプニ ‘place where the birds are’ proposedProponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
The article gives this as the plain reading of the name. Kites were circling the cape when the author was there.
Evidence
- parallel place names
Chikabumi near Asahikawa, a well-known kotan, is the same Chikapuni and goes back to a rock where birds perch.
cikap 'bird' is a dictionary word in the sense used, the un-i shape is ordinary, a parallel name of the same shape stands at Asahikawa, and no source in the article contests it.
cikap-pa-ne-i
チカパネイ ‘place like a bird's head’ proposedProponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
Takes the point of the cape for a bird's head. The article gives cikap-pa-an 'there is a bird's head' as the same idea in another shape, and keeps both as a diversion.
The parts are dictionary words. The author sets the reading aside himself.
teske-pa-un-i
テㇱケパウニ ‘place that has a cape bent back’ proposedProponent: 諸説
Reported by the article without a named proponent.
Tamura has teske as an intransitive verb 'warp, bend away'. The reading stands one step further from the recorded spellings than the cikap readings.
Attestations
- テカハアニ／ツカハネ／チカハウニ／チカホニ／チカハネ document Edo period 旧記類
The spellings are unstable.
zenibako_trek…