ラヲベ岬 らをべみさき Rawobe
Bikuni, Shakotan, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Rawotpe, Raope
One of the cliff capes between Hamafumi and Cape Makka.
Referents
- mountain The cape south-east of the Hamafumi settlement, beyond the ninety-degree bend of the Nozuka-Fumi road. A vertical cliff with a drop of about a hundred metres, with a white slip face on its south side.
Analyses
rawot-pe
ラヲッペ ‘the one that clings to the low part’ proposedProponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
The low part here is the sea. The article gives 'the place that sinks a little' as a second rendering.
Confidence: low
raw is a Tamura headword in the sense used and pe is ordinary in place names. Whether ot attaches this way is not shown, and the reading is proposed against a hundred-metre cliff.
zenibako_trek… ラヲベ岬田村1996 s.v. raw 深いところ、沈む底の方
ra-o-pe
ラオペ ‘the one that is attached low’ proposedProponent: DBアイヌ語地名
Objections
- After a vowel the form should be p, which would give ra-o-p. The cape is a vertical cliff with a drop of about a hundred metres, so calling it low does not fit. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek…
Confidence: low
ra and pe are dictionary words. The article raises a morphological objection to the final syllable and a topographic one to the gloss.
zenibako_trek… ラヲベ岬
Sources
zenibako_trek… 田村1996