チユツプシカリ
Ainu「中旬」
Kayano explicitly gives cup sikari for a full moon, and NINJAL gives “the moon is round”. Tamura includes the phrase in cup sikari sirara. This supports separating cup and sikari. A full-moon description is compatible with the middle of a lunar month, while the precise ten-day interval 中旬 remains qualified. Cupsikari tests joining; sikari cup occurs with a full-moon translation in a 2013 Ainu Times sentence and reverses the word order. Neither the later sentence nor the companion extract independently dates the romanization to the historical source.
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- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 20, line 4 · チユツプシカリ
…ツプ十一月クイカイチユツプ十二月チウルプ上旬アシンノチユツプ中旬チユツプシカリ下旬チユツプニン今日タント昨日ヌマニ一昨日ホシケヌマニ一昨前日ホシケヌマニイトユタ明日ニシヤツタ…