Suttsu, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
樽岸
たるぎし TarugishiThe name survives as a district and a bus stop, and the stream it was attached to has lost the name entirely.
Ainu spellings: Taor-ikir-us-i, Taor-kes
Analyses
terke-us-i
テㇾケウシ
place where one jumps across
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
Suggested from the sound of タルキシ and from the reef that spreads along this shore; such names attach to places where one crosses rocky shore by jumping. The author sets it aside: a change from an e vowel to an a vowel rarely happens.
taor-kes
タㇻケㇱ
the end of the high river bank
- taor high ground above a river bank
- kes end, lower end
Proponent: 定説 (the received reading)
The reading reaches Tarugishi in sound and matches the landform, and the author finds nothing jarring in it.
Objections
- The old maps write タラエキクシナイ, タラエキリシナイ, タリキシナイ, タライキリシ and タラキルシ, all of which carry a syllable between the taor and the final element that taor-kes does not account for. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek2024
taor-ikir-us-i
タリキルシ
place where the high banks stand in a row
- taor high bank above the shore
- ikir row, line of things
- us be attached at
- i place where
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
Reading the ク of 松浦山川図 as a miswritten リ and the ヱ of 今井図 as イ gives タリキルシ as the original of Tarugishi. The high bank comes right down to the sea here; when wind and waves were up, people walked along the top of it. A mountain road was laid out at the end of the Edo period, and the approach to Tarugishi shrine keeps a trace of it. Beyond the shrine the path gives out into a deer track.
Evidence
- documents
The five old spellings agree in carrying a syllable between タラ and the ending, which is what ikir supplies.
- topography
High bank runs down to the water along this stretch, in a line of successive faces.
Attestations
- タラエキクシナイ map Edo period 東西蝦夷山川地理取調図
The author reads the ク as a miswriting of リ.
zenibako_trek2024 表「古地図・旧記／樽岸（タルキシ）」 - タラエキリシナイ map Edo period 今井測量原図
今井図 habitually writes イ as ヱ, so the original sound behind タラエ is タライ.
zenibako_trek2024 表「古地図・旧記／樽岸（タルキシ）」 - タライキリシ map Edo period 伊能大図zenibako_trek2024 表「古地図・旧記／樽岸（タルキシ）」
- タリキシナイ map Edo period 天保里数図zenibako_trek2024 表「古地図・旧記／樽岸（タルキシ）」
- タラキルシ map Edo period 秦蝦夷島図zenibako_trek2024 表「古地図・旧記／樽岸（タルキシ）」
Related names
- 建岩 たていわ — A bus stop and a line of shore houses between Tarugishi and Rokujō. The Ainu name is given as ri-suma 'high rock'. No such rock is visible from the beach now; a fisherman told the author that the rock on the breakwater of Tarugishi harbour is the original, cut down and no longer tall. A postcard shows a rock at the tip of the point beyond the tunnel. The Tateiwa tunnel itself was in use until recently and has since been opened out. zenibako_trek2024
Sources
- 弁慶岬と義経弁慶伝説・寿都西部の地名由来
zenibako_trek·2024-12-28
- アイヌ語沙流方言辞典
田村, すず子·1996