Ainu edit

Etymology edit

Possibly related to Old Japanese (kapa, skin), from Proto-Japonic *kapa.

Noun edit

カㇷ゚ (Latin spelling kap)

  1. skin
  2. outer covering

References edit

  • 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 210