ニマム
Ainu「船玉神」
nimamlow
Nimam is documented for a boat. Fukasawa records 船神 in a related historical witness and offers the boat word as a comparison, while this source writes 船玉神. The surviving lexical evidence does not settle whether the entry names a boat, a personified boat, or a particular protective deity. The sole corpus match is a 2024 social post glossed “boat”; it supplies no independent historical boat-deity attestation. The historical “wood joining” explanation remains tentative.
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- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 25, line 6 · ニマム
…キクルミ弁慶シヤマイグル幽霊ばけものアヱシユル イシネレプ船玉神ニマム医師イツ゚ヽネ賢者ヤワシノグル死人ライグル使者ウデツクル貧者ヘロングル ウヱングル 乏者 シルン…