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Ainu-English Dictionary

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• ramat (ラマッ) - soul, spirit; meaning (of a word, etc.) (explicitly possessed form ramaciラマチ)• ray (ライ) - to dieoocupray (チュプライ) - eclipserayke (ライケ) - [sing. obj.] to kill (one thing), to cause (a singular object) to die• re (レ) - name (explicitly possessed form レヘ rehe)• rera (レラ) - wind• retar (レタラ) - white• ri (リ) - high, tall, lofty• repun (レプン) - in the offing, offshore, out in the sea (cf. Rebun Island)orepunkamuy (レプンカムイ) - god of the sea; orca; (in Samani dialect) whale• ruyanpe (ルヤンペ) - rain; [dial.] stormS• sak (サク) - summer (also known as the "women's season" for the fact that it is a goodtime of year for women to cultivate plants or to gather wild botanical resources)• sampe (サンペ) - heart, cardiac organ• san (サン) - to go down, to descend; to flow along (as a river)osanke (サンケ) - to send down, to cause to go down• sapanpe (サパンペ) - men's ceremonial <strong>Ainu</strong> crown [7]• sar (サラ) - tail (explicitly possessed form sara サラ or saraha サラハ)• sayo (サヨ) - sayo, <strong>Ainu</strong>-style porridge• seta (セタ) - dog (recent dialectal variants include sita シタ; early records of the <strong>Ainu</strong>language also contain other variant forms of this word for "dog," such as sta, heta, andhida)• sik (シク) - eye (explicitly possessed form siki or sikihi)• sikotan (シコタン) - Pleasant Village (present day Shikotan island)• sinep (シネプ) - one (thing)• sinrit (シンリッ) - root (of a tree, etc.); (ancestral) roots, bloodline, pedigree• sippo (シッポ) - salt• sir (シリ) - weather; appearance; status, condition• sir (シリ) - land; islandosir etok (シリ エトク) - the end of the Earth; the Shiretoko Peninsula• sir (シリ) - mountain9

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