ユプ

Ainu

Etymology

Borrowed from Nivkh юпть (jupț, “to tie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /júꜜpù/

Verb

ユプ (Latin spelling yupu, plural ユㇷ゚パ, causative ユㇷ゚ケ)

1. to tighten

References

• 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