ヌブレシルウタレ
Ainu「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.
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- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 24, line 14 · ヌブレシルウタレ
…ヤモ通詞ツ゚ンジ飯炊の人シユケグル船頭センド百姓トイタシシヤモ僧ヌブレシルウタレ筆者カンビシシヤム巫医ヘシルウタレ蝦夷地上古の人クルムセ チセコチカムイ コルボツクルカムイ源義…