ウコバ
Ainu「似た」
ukopamedium
Batchelor explicitly gives Ukoba, resemble, matching 似た and the historical ウコバ. Ukopa uses modern p for the printed b; ukoba is retained as the source spelling. The separate take-by-mistake sense and Ota’s 新 derived senses are unnecessary to this identification. The 1938 citation supports the comparison without proving an eighteenth-century pronunciation.
References
Occurrences (1)
- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 坤巻 · Page 50, line 12 · ウコバ
…るイカシマ不足ウハイ ハイタ名号レ シロシ レヘ似たウコイラム ウコバ コヘライ真似（マネ）マネン ヱユカリ身長（タ）ケイツケウヱ助語不可イテケ不シヨモ非ヘンネ無イシ…