parunpe

Ainu

Alternative forms

• carunpe (Sakhalin)
• チャルンペ (Sakhalin)

Etymology

From paro (“mouth”) +‎ un (“locative particle”) +‎ pe (“thing”), literally “thing in mouth”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /páɾꜜùmpè/, /páɾꜜùnpè/

Noun

parunpe (Kana spelling パルンペ)

1. (anatomy) tongue

References

• John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎^[1], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 338
• Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies‎^[2], volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93