patoy

Ainu

Alternative forms

• catoy (Sakhalin, Kuril)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pàꜛtój/

Noun

patoy (Kana spelling パトィ, possessed form patoye)

1. (anatomy) lips

   Synonym: papus

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., page 340
• Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies‎^[2], volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93