Iwanai, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
車滝
くるまだき Pes-o-soAt the thaw more than twenty waterfalls hang along this stretch. The 雷電のはなし records that at 滝の下 one walked from stone to stone with the spray making them slippery, all the way to the Hashigo-daki, and the 罕有日記 of Ansei 4 draws four waterfalls in a row.
Ainu spellings: Pes-o-so, Pes-noski-oma-nay
Analyses
pes-o-so
ペソショー
waterfall on the cliff
- pes cliff, slope above the shore
- o be there, have
- so waterfall
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
Read from the 松浦山川図 spelling ヘソショウ. The author states the reading with a hedge.
pes-noski-oma-nay
ペㇱノㇱキオマナイ
stream in the middle of the cliff
- pes cliff, slope above the shore
- noski the middle of
- oma be at, be in
- nay stream
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
Read from the 伊能大図 spelling ヘシノシケオマナイ, with the same hedge.
Attestations
- ヘソショウ map Edo period 東西蝦夷山川地理取調図
- ヘシノシケオマナイ map Edo period 伊能大図
Sources
- 雷電海岸の地名と由来 ～ライデン地名考～
zenibako_trek·2023-10-13
- アイヌ語沙流方言辞典
田村, すず子·1996