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Kanazawa 1898

Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金澤庄三郎 (1898). アイヌ語会話辞典[A topical dictionary of Ainu conversation (Saru)].

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3citing sentences
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e=samake ta an
2SG.O=beside LOC exist
‘It is beside you.’
nisatta somo k=an
tomorrow NEG 1SG.S=exist
‘I won't be here tomorrow.’
Tokyo un paye=an sir-i an
Tokyo LOC go=4.S appearance-POSS exist
‘Did you go to Tokyo?’
k=apkas eaykap
1SG.S=walk cannot
‘I cannot walk.’
na hepera paye a=eaykap ru-we an
more upstream go.PL 4.A=cannot track-POSS exist
‘Is it that one cannot go any further upstream?’
ukuran ku=mokor koyaykus
last.night 1SG.S=sleep cannot
‘Last night I could not sleep.’
ku=nukar korka k=erampewtek
1SG.A=see although 1SG.A=not.understand
‘I looked at it, but I do not understand.’
e=erampewtek yakka somo ku=iruska
2SG.A=not.understand even.if NEG 1SG.S=be.angry
‘Even if you do not understand, I will not be angry.’
tanpe akkari nep ka somo e=kon rusuy
this.one beyond what even NEG 2SG.A=have want
‘Do you not want anything more than this?’
nen ka isam ru-we
who even not.exist track-POSS
‘Is no one there?’
iteki mokor
PROH sleep
‘Do not sleep.’
ponno ka iteki ekimatek yan
a.little even PROH be.startled POL
‘Please do not be startled in the least.’

Sentences of the first edition citing this source

  1. The late Meiji period added further lexical resources, among them the Saru-dialect topical conversation dictionary of . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
  2. The Kanazawa 1898 example Tokyo un paye=an siri an? 'Did you go to Tokyo?' illustrates this use ; . no page siri ne — the Direct-Perception / Situational Evidential
  3. The lexicon of ability pairs it with eaykap as a doublet, the two glossed together as ‘cannot do’ and ‘cannot manage’ . no page Negative Predicates of Ability and Cognition