Ainu-English Dictionary

• haw (ハウ) - voice (explicitly possessed form hawe ハウェ or hawehe ハウェへ)• hemanta (へマンタ) - what? (dialectal variants include hemata へマタ)• hempakpe (ヘンパクペ) - how many (things)?• hese (ヘセ) - to breathe; to sigh• hok (ホク) - to buy (dialectal variants include hoh ホフ)• hoku (ホク) - husband (explicitly possessed form hokuhu; dialectal variants includeoku(hu))• hom (ホム) - a knot (in wood); a joint (of bamboo)onihom (ニホム) - a knot in wood, a knot in a tree (explicitly possessed formnihomi ニホミ; in some dialects, the two morphemes that compose thiscompound are maintained as separate words, i.e. ni hom instead of nihom)o tophom (トプホム) - a joint of bamboo (in some dialects, this form is maintainedas two separate words, i.e. top hom instead of tophom)• hon (ホン) - belly, abdomen, stomach (explicitly possessed form honi ホニ or honihiホニヒ)• huci (フチ) - grandmother; old woman• humpe (フンペ) - whale• hure (フレ) - (to be) redI• inaw (イナウ) - sacred shaved stick, symbolizing a bird,used for prayer [2]• iomante (イオマンテ) - the Ainu bear festival [3](sometimes pronounced as イヨマンテ iyomante, イヨマンデiyomande, etc.; from i- ("it, something, someone," a prefix forvaguely indicating the object of a verb) + oman (to go) + -te(causative suffix))• ipe (イペ) - [v.i.] to eat, to have a meal; [n.] fish(especially the likes of salmon, trout, or sturgeon)o somo ku-ipe na (ソモ クイペ ナ) - I won't eat.• ipetam (イペタㇺ) - legendary Ainu sword [4] (literally,the "eating blade" or the "blade that eats (people)")• ironne (イロンネ) - thick (as a flattish object)• isam (イサㇺ) - not to exist, not to be, not to have; to begone, not to be there anymore; to die (semantically equivalent toJapanese 無 い, なくなる, or (~て)しまう)3