エクシュアントマリ えくしゅあんとまり E-kusi-an-tomari
Iwanai, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: E-kusi-an-tomari, Etu-ko-us-i-an-tomari
The spring that fed the hotels below still runs.
Referents
- shore The inlet at the site of the Raiden hot-spring hotels. The last inn closed in Reiwa 1 and the buildings are gone or derelict; the Raiden Onsen-kyō bus stop and a parking area with a toilet remain. The inlet lies one bay short of the Yūnai River.
Analyses
etu-ko-us-i-an-tomari
エトゥコウシアントマリ ‘anchorage at the thing with a nose attached to it’ proposedProponent: 榊原正文
The reading refers the name to the cape.
Objections
- Corrected for grammar the reading would run etu-ko-an-tomari 'anchorage at the nose'. The inlet is one bay short of the Yūnai River and some way from Cape Raiden, so it cannot well be said to be attached to the cape. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek…
The chain of elements is long and, on the objection raised, not well formed; the position does not support a cape name.
e-kusi-an-tomari
エクシアントマリ ‘anchorage beyond the cape’ proposed- e ‘its head, at its head’
- kusi ‘on the far side of it (possessive form of kus)’
- an ‘be at’
- tomari ‘anchorage’
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
kusi is the possessive form of kus, and the phrase is an Orofure construction; word for word, the anchorage whose head is on the far side.
tomari and an are dictionary words; the possessive kusi in the sense proposed is not carried by the dictionaries consulted here, and the construction is the author's analysis.
Attestations
- エクシユアントマリ document Edo period 廻浦日記
今井測量原図 gives the same form.
zenibako_trek…