得撫島
うるっぷとう Urup Central Kuril IslandsAinu spellings: ウルツプ, Uruppu
Torii records the Aleuts the Russian government settled here and on Simushir (p. 34).
Location
45.9002, 149.9898 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-11, on 得撫島. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- island The large island north of Iturup; Russian Уруп
Analyses
Urup-pet
ウルップペッ ‘red salmon river’ proposed- urup ‘red salmon (Batchelor)’
- pet ‘river’
Proponent: Batchelor, John (John Batchelor)
Batchelor's reading, which supplies a pet the recorded island name does not show.
Krasheninnikov's Уруп and Torii's ウルツプ carry no pet, and urup 'red salmon' is Batchelor's own gloss.
Уруппу
ウルップ ‘the salmon island’ proposed- uruppu ‘a salmon (Okamoto: 紅鱒 beni-masu; the book: coho)’
Proponent: 岡本柳之助 (Okamoto Ryūnosuke)
The reading the 1947 commission adopted as 'salmon'; Иван Черный's diary of 1769 already glosses the name by the red fish of the island's lake Топо, and Siebold's Vries glossary has Urupp as Salmo sanguinolentus.
A fish name urup for the island is recorded independently in 1769 and 1898; which salmon it is remains open, and Batchelor's urup-pet adds a pet the name never shows.
Attestations
- ウルツプ島 oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
In chief ヤコーフ's division of the chain the island belongs to 西 Rūton, the Kuril Ainu's own land. On p. 38 everything from Urup south to Hokkaidō is Yawan in the Kuril Ainu's daily usage.
鳥居1903 p. 36 - Уруп document 1755 Крашенинников, Описание земли Камчатки, ч. I, гл. 9 «О Курильских островах»
…а оттуда до двадесятого острова Урупа и от сего до двадесять первого Кунашира морские проливы гораздо уже.
The commission restored the name with this gloss; in the Russian-American Company's time the island was Компанейский остров, and Головнин 1811 lists Остров Александра (РАК) beside the foreigners' Компанейская земля (p. 367).
Krasheninniko… 1949 ed., p. 170 - Uruppu dictionary 1905 An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, 2nd ed.
Urup-pet. Red salmon river.
Batchelor1905 § V "Place Names Considered", s.v. Uruppu - Urup document 1897 Snow, Notes on the Kuril IslandsSnow1897 p. 60
- Уруп document 1947 Проект Картографической комиссии РГО им. Ю. М. Шокальского «Названия географических объектов Курильских островов», 1947
«Старое айнское название, означающее «лосось»».
The commission restored the name with this gloss; the Russian-American Company had called the island Александра and foreign charts Company's Land.
Бражник2024 p. 366 - Ракко document 1786 林子平『蝦夷志』(1786), as cited in Бражник–Пономарёв 2024
The book lists 林子平's Ракко, прежде Курухасэ for the island; 猟虎島 Rakko-shima is the Japanese name from the sea otter.
Бражник2024 p. 367 - Уруп двадесятой document 1725–1737 Козыревский 1725–1730; Миллер 1737 (as listed in Бражник–Пономарёв 2024)
The Russian record has Уруп двадесятой (Козыревский 1725–1726), Уруп, тринатцатой (1730) and Уруп, двадцатый (Миллер 1737), the last two confusing it with Iturup.
Бражник2024 p. 368