チユツプホネヽ
Ainu「昼八ツ時」
Honene means to turn or change direction. Three corpus records use cup honene with Japanese translations describing the sun beginning to incline. This supports the separated expression and the repetition of ネ represented by ヽ. Cuphonene tests joining; honene alone has an afternoon definition in Batchelor, where cup ram is another comparison. The sun’s movement fits the afternoon setting, but neither the broader narrative wording nor Batchelor’s approximate hour precisely identifies historical 昼八ツ時.
References
Occurrences (1)
- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 21, line 8 · チユツプホネヽ
…チユツプヲホツタラ昼四ツ時チユツプリイ昼九ツ時トノヽシケ昼八ツ時チユツプホネヽ晩七ツ時チユツプラン暮六ツ時チユツフハウシ晩方トーケシ夜来ヲクラン夜明かたアンケシ リカニシヤツ…