マッカ岬 まっかみさき Makka
Bikuni, Shakotan, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Makka
The name appears on this coast in two sizes, Poromakashuma at Horomui and Ponmakashuma at Itagiriishi, and in each case a large rock stands at the point of the cape.
Referents
- mountain Cape Makka, east of the Horomui settlement, which it stands over. It can be seen as far off as Ranshima in Otaru, with a large rock rising at its point. The coordinates the name Funbemai carries fall on this point.
Analyses
maka
マッカ ‘fork’ proposed- maka ‘forked branch, fork’
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
The article marks this reading as the one it supports. Makka is a Matagi word of the Tōhoku region for 股木 'forked branch'. The name is absent from the Edo-period record and appears first in the Meiji era, which allows that settlers from Tōhoku named the cape. Every Makka cape the article knows, here, at Sannai in Kamoenai and toward Mashike, carries a sharply protruding rock like a small hill at its point.
Evidence
- parallel place names
Ebetsu is written イベチマタ in the older documents, i-pet-mata 'the fork of that river', where the Yūbari River, now the Chitose, branches from the Ishikari. Mataitoki in Kushiro can be read mata-etok 'the head of the fork'; there are two capes, Mataitoki and Pon-Mataitoki, which carried the boundary between Kushiro and Konbumori village. The article takes mata or maka for 'fork' to be shared vocabulary with roots in the language of Tōhoku.
The reading takes the name to be Japanese, which agrees with its absence from the Edo record. The Ainu-language parallels the article offers, Ebetsu and Mataitoki, are themselves proposals.
mak-ka
マッカ ‘above the back’ proposed- mak ‘behind’
- ka ‘on top’
Proponent: 諸説
Fitted to the sound, without a named proponent in the article.
Variants
- maki-ka ‘above its back’ — The author's grammatical repair, since mak and ka are both locative nouns.
- mak-un-kasi ‘the upper place behind’ — The second grammatical repair the author offers.
Objections
- mak and ka are both locative nouns, which makes the compound difficult. Even repaired, the reading does not describe this landform well. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek…
Both parts are dictionary items. The article raises a grammatical objection and holds that the sense does not answer to the cape.
Attestations
- マッカ document Meiji era 明治以降の記録
The name is absent from the Edo-period documents and appears first in the Meiji era.
zenibako_trek… - ポロマカシュマ／ポンマカシュマ document Edo period 旧図類
Two Makka are given for this coast, a large one at Horomui and a small one at Itagiriishi.
zenibako_trek…
Related names
- 江別 えべつ — Written イベチマタ in older documents, read i-pet-mata 'the fork of that river' where the Yūbari, now the Chitose, branches from the Ishikari. zenibako_trek…
- 又飯時 またいとき — A hard name in Kushiro, readable as mata-etok 'the head of the fork'. Mataitoki and Pon-Mataitoki are two capes that carried the boundary between Kushiro and Konbumori village. zenibako_trek…