ラヲチ
Ainu「虹」
raocimedium
Batchelor directly lists Raochi for rainbow, supporting raoci as a single selected reading of ラヲチ. Kayano and Nakagawa attest rayoci; Rawoci also occurs with an explicit rainbow translation in the 2011 Bihoro intermediate textbook, step 29 (corpus zaidan-textbooks/bihoro-intermediate/29#4). The variation does not justify silently imposing rayoci on this historical form. The textbook says its examples are mostly newly composed, so this is a modern pedagogical comparison, not proof of historical or independently recorded speech.
References
Occurrences (1)
- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 14, line 2 · ラヲチ
…ベシ峠ルチシ岡の道マクベカ燃るアベセベク天河ベツノカ気ハーリヽ虹ラヲチ牽牛チクサグル織女マラフトノカ参宿イウタニ水の湧ワツカボプ ベボプ窪いシコツ水源ベツヱイトコ汐干…