Aynuitak Huskokampi Aomarepu アイヌ語古記録データベース Early Records Database of the Ainu Language

蝦夷方言藻汐草

えぞほうげん もしおぐさ · Ezo hōgen moshiogusa · 上原熊次郎・阿部長三郎 · 1792 · Wordlist · Place names · Characters · Catalogue record

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Ainu

「汝」

i=low
I= is retained cautiously because Tamura and Nakagawa document a respectful second-person object use, alongside inclusive and narrative first-person uses. It is not a general independent singular “you.” E= is the ordinary second-person prefix and remains an alternative if イ represents its vowel historically. The isolated source gloss supplies no syntax or social context to choose securely. Corpus examples of i=kor retained here mean “me,” so they do not verify the respectful second-person analysis. Prefix-query counts are boundary-limited retrieval, not total grammatical occurrences.
Tamura 1996 s.v. i=「(不定人称目的格の人称接辞) ①(包括的一人称複数) 相手を含む私たちを/に。…」, e=「あなたが/の/を/に。…」; Nakagawa 1995 s.v. i=「①(話相手を含む)われわれを・に。…」; Kayano 1996 s.v. i=「私(に,を,の)〔人称接辞〕.」Source passage
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  1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 26, line 6 ·

    …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 ヤニ父ハンベ ミチ アチヤ母ハボ兄ユービ弟アキ伯父ケウシユプ伯母コンナリペ姉シヤー妹ツ…