春牟古丹島 はるむこたんとう Kharimkotan
Northern Kuril Islands
Ainu spellings: Harum' kotan
Torii's island names come from his Kuril Ainu informants グリゴリ, ゲラシム and アウエリキ (p. 40).
Location
49.1193, 154.5384 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-11, on 春牟古丹島. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- island The island south-west of Onekotan; Russian Харимкотан
Analyses
Harum' kotan
ハルムコタン ‘the place with many lilies’ proposed- harum' ‘lily (Torii's word list: Haru 'ウバ百合')’
- kotan ‘place, village’
Proponent: 鳥居龍藏 (Torii Ryūzō)
Torii's gloss; the m of Harum' is not accounted for.
Confidence: medium
Torii's own word list has Haru for the lily, which fits his gloss; the -m of Harum' remains unexplained.
鳥居1903 p. 43鳥居1903 第六章 千島地名普通單語集 (pp. 156–172), Haru「ウバ百合」鳥居1903 第六章 千島地名普通單語集 (pp. 156–172), Kotan
Attestations
- Harum' kotan oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
「ハル」とは百合草のことにて、ハルムコタンとは百合の多くある所と云へる意味なり
Torii explains ハル as the lily plant and the name as 'the place with many lilies'.
鳥居1903 p. 43
Sources
鳥居1903