Talk:エペㇾ

Seems dubious

As noted also at User talk:Adventuregirl182:

I can find several words for bear in Ainu, including チラマㇺテㇷ゚ (ciramamtep) and カムイ (kamuy), but none of them are エペㇾ (eper), and indeed I can find no such word in Ainu of any meaning. Where did you get this term?

If User:Adventuregirl182 does not comment and no other user chimes in with a good source, this term may be nominated for deletion. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 17:32, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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エペㇾ

See Talk:エペㇾ. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:55, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

It seems to come from this website, where eper is listed as meaning “bear (animal)”. The website extracted it from The Languages of Japan by Masayoshi Shibatani, which used it in two example sentences. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:35, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

@Eirikr, I presume this is a sufficient source. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:30, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

• No response, so this is RFV passed. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:58, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

• Apologies; I'm late getting back to this.

The linked ainuenglish.html web page explains that the terms listed may be dialectal or classical. I am loath to include anything from that list that cannot be corroborated from other sources.

The Bihoro online textbook for Ainu is the only fully reputable source I've been able to find that includes this term, with an apparent meaning of bear cub. See the bottom of page 89 in the PDF here. The Latin-alphabet text is searchable, but the PDF was apparently created with the wrong encoding, so while it is legible to humans, none of the kana text is machine-searchable.

I'll edit the エペㇾ entry accordingly. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 23:20, 14 September 2017 (UTC)