牢知島 ろうちとう Lovushki
Northern Kuril Islands
Ainu spellings: Móshiri, Haito-mindru, Piraru-mindru
The Ainu head form is simply mosir 'island'; mindru in the two islet names recurs nowhere else in Torii's lists.
Referents
- island The rocks between Shiashkotan and Raikoke
Analyses
Attestations
- Móshiri oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
二島名あり、一を Haito-mindru（人間の居る所）一を Piraru-mindru（トヾ獸の居る所）と稱す
Torii gives Móshiri as the head form and two names for the two islets: Haito-mindru 'where people are' and Piraru-mindru 'where sea lions are'.
鳥居1903 p. 43
Sources
鳥居1903