大崎山 イクービ Ikubi
Yoichi, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Ikubi
The name is one of three Nutchi tributaries in Matsuura's lists, and the local history places it on the mountain.
Referents
- mountain Ōsaki-yama, on the north face of Hyakushō-zawa, on the identification of the local history of Toyooka-chō. A built stone structure eleven metres long has been found there.
Analyses
e-u-ka-o-pi
エウカオピ ‘stones laid one on another’ proposed- e ‘there’
- u ‘each other’
- ka ‘on top’
- o ‘put, be placed’
- pi ‘pebble, stone’
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
The local history of Toyooka-chō reads the name as 'there is a stone there'; the author restates it as stones laid one on another and takes the referent to be the built stone structure on Ōsaki-yama, eleven metres long, reported in 『余市町大崎山遺跡第一調査概要』.
Confidence: low
The reading is offered as an approximation and matches an archaeological feature on the hill it names. The segmentation into five short elements is not tested against any recorded variant of the name.
zenibako_trek… イクービ
Attestations
- イクービ document Edo period 辰手控・竹四郎廻浦日記（松浦武四郎）zenibako_trek…
Sources
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