Aynuitak Huskokampi Aomarepu アイヌ語古記録データベース Early Records Database of the Ainu Language

蝦夷方言藻汐草

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「僧」

Fukasawa proposes nupur with Japanese suru and utar, and the thesis prints nupursur(u) utar for a person exercising spiritual power. Nupur suru utar exposes that tentative hybrid analysis. The source’s レ and シ still require explanation; nupure sir utar is a closer literal comparison with no established whole-expression meaning. Nupur kur and nupur utar independently describe people with spiritual power, but omit the middle element and do not specify Buddhist monks. Batchelor’s nupure “like/be fond of” and the Bible example about liking public prayer are a different lexical comparison. No full candidate is attested in the searched corpus; the reconstruction remains a guess.
Fukasawa 2016 p.88; Fukasawa, doctoral thesis (2016 academic year) p.68; Tamura 1996 s.v. nupur「透視力をはじめとする霊力(超能力)がある(神のように、 見ないでもわかるし、 先のこともわかる、 病気や災いの原因を言い当てたり、 重病人を癒やしたり生き返らせたりできる)。… / (お茶や汁が)濃い。… / …を神力で守る。…」, utar「(所は utari(hi) ウタリ(ヒ)) ①人々。…」; Kayano 1996 s.v. nupurkur「みこ:占いや予言のできる人.…」; Batchelor 1938 s.v. Nupure「v.t. To like. To be fond of.」, Nupuru「adj. Precious. Estimable. Mighty. As:—Kamui nupuru mon-kashi, “by the estimable (or precious) works of God.” / adj. Turbid. Thick or dirty or strong / n. Magic.」, PDF pp.339–340Source passage
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  1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 24, line 14 · ヌブレシルウタレ

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