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「敵」

toma utarguess
Toma utar separates the clearly recorded ウタレ element and removes the editorial question mark from the selected spelling; uncertainty is carried by the guess rating. Fukasawa leaves toma unexplained. Both corpus matches of toma utar refer to mats, not enemies. Sitoma “fear” supplies only a semantic comparison: it requires an unwritten initial si, and the modern sitoma utar example concerns people who fear something. Neither comparison establishes the historical enemy expression. Tumi “war” suggests tumi utar as another semantic comparison. A 2017 conflict-context post contains that phrase without a Japanese translation, but two vowels differ from トマ and it does not attest the eighteenth-century reading. Tumi also has a possessed “strength” sense; its bare count is not a count of enemy nouns.
Fukasawa 2016 p.86, トマウタレ; Tamura 1996 s.v. utar「(所は utari(hi) ウタリ(ヒ)) ①人々。…」, toma「(大きい)ござ、 敷物。…」, sitoma「…を恐れる、 …がこわい(「おっかない」)。…」, tumi「戦争、 いくさ。…」; Hirayama 2013 part 3 s.v. トマウタレ「① 敵;②」Source passage
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  1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 26, line 1 · トマウタレ

    …リシマク ヤイランベテウノ童子テンネツ子供ポンチヨ ボー ボホ敵トマウタレ身方シウルンウタレ補佐の人イヨシカマレ影法師アイノクリ吾われク クアニ カニ汝イ イアニ ヤニ父…