チロンヌㇷ゚

Ainu

Etymology

Compound of チ (ci, “people”, as a general indicator) +‎ ロンヌ (ronnu, “to kill”) +‎ ㇷ゚ (-p, nominalizing suffix), basically meaning “the thing that people kill”.

Noun

チロンヌㇷ゚ (Latin spelling cironnup)

1. fox

Synonyms

• シュマリ (shumari)
• シツㇺベ (situmbe, more specifically, a black fox)
• フレㇷ゚ (furep, more specifically, a red fox, literally “red thing”)

Related terms

• ウパㇲ チロンヌㇷ゚ (upas cironnup, “ermine”, literally “snow” + “thing people kill”, “snow” in reference to the white coat)
• ウォロ チロンヌㇷ゚ (woro cironnup, “river otter”, literally “interior” + “thing people kill”, “interior” in reference to inland rivers)

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.