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 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |A, “I.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “I.” Also the verb of existence; “is”; “am.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |A, “Net.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “a net.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |A, “A foot.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “a tine”; “prong of a fork.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Abai, “A shield.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “to defend.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Abame, “To despise.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “To despise.” The root of this word is, “insipid.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Ae-mono, “food eaten with rice.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “food.” The roots are, [sic] “to eat,”, a passive participle, , “thing.” Hence , food.  is the equivalent of mono.
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Aka, “the holy water of the Buddhists.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" | and [sic] , ordinary “drinking water.”
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 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Ae-mono, “food eaten with rice.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" |, “food.” The roots are, [sic] “to eat,”, a passive participle, , “thing.” Hence , food.  is the equivalent of mono.
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 1.5em;" |Aka, “the holy water of the Buddhists.”
 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" | and [sic] , ordinary “drinking water.”
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 * style="vertical-align: top; text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em;" | and [sic] , ordinary “drinking water.”
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Speaking of water reminds the author that Chief Penri of Piratori once desired to claim relationship because Eng., “water” and Ainu were so much alike. But when informed that ship was, “bone,” , “two,” , and “three,” , he was quite certain we were brothers. With regard to the use of for “water,” however, it should be remarked that in Saghalien the Ainu usually employ the word, and  is nearly obsolete. Still, that the word is of very ancient use among the Ainu on the Siberian continent is proved by Dobrotvorsky who gives the word as the name of “rivulet” there. He does not, however, venture to show the derivation of the name. Yet in plain, matter of fact, present day Ainu, is simply “the valley with water running down it.” It corresponds to   of the South of Japan and  of Yezo.