hapah

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Ainu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Nivkh ӿаваф (havaf).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hapah (Kana spelling ハパㇵ, possessed form hapapuhu)

  1. (dialectal, Sakhalin, anatomy) lungs
    Synonym: yukram

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (2016) “On the Linguistic Prehistory of Hokkaidō”, in Gruzdeva Ekaterina, Janhunen Juha, editors, Crosslinguistics and Linguistic Crossings in Northeast Asia. Papers on the Languages of Sakhalin and Adjacent Regions (Studia Orientalia; 117), Helsinki, pages 29–38.
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