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ツレㇷ゚ニ

Ainu edit

Etymology edit

Compound of ツレㇷ゚ (turep, “a type of lily with an edible bulb, Lilium glehnii”) +‎ ニ (ni, “tree”),[1] likely in reference to the similarity of the leaves.

Noun edit

ツレㇷ゚ニ • (turepni)

  1. a mulberry tree

References edit

  1. ^ 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.
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