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Batchelor explicitly gives flame and the example Abe nipek, providing a direct semantic comparison with 炎. Recorded oral examples also use ape nipek for firelight. The facsimile still has イベクヽ: initial n is absent and the final repetition remains unexplained. nipek remains a low-confidence hypothesis; ipek and repetition-explicit ipekku are literal comparisons with no retrieved corpus matches. The earlier initial-n-loss proposal was attributed to private correspondence whose text remains uninspected; that attribution supplies no verified phonological evidence.