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74 “head” (caput) is pen. In Ainu means the “source” or “head” of a river; “the upper part of a valley!” It also appears in  “the chest. The words for two and  for “three” still keep us at home. So also. means in Ainu “an appartmentapartment [sic] in a dwelling.” Thus, is a “natural cave” and, first, a “dwelling appartmentapartment [sic]” or “division in a cave” and then a “room” in a house. But further, the word [sic] has very interesting associations. By some it means “womb,” and according to others “the placenta.” means “foetus,” and hence comes the word, “fish-row.” All this reminds one of the Anglo-Saxon word Tûn “a close” (German “Zaun”), which afterwards becomes a “Town.” , “house” applies to the “home” of many living objects as, a wasp, bee, man, bear and such like beings, while  is only applied to the living apartment of a human being, whether it be in a cave, in a pit dug in the side of a hill or in a hole dug in the level ground; or whether it is a room in a “house” or , as that in of my house in Sapporo, or the poky dark hole 6 feet by 9 in the southeastern corner of Chief Penri’s hut at Piratori which was put up for me to sleep in; all these “divisions” or “apartments” are , “rooms” in Ainu. But it is a well known fact that the English word “tomb” is from the mediaeval Latin tumba. But tumba first meant “a hillock,” after that “a tomb.” Again one therefore wonders whether there is any family relationship between tumba “a hillock” and, “aan [sic] apartment in a cave."

Now, in Ainu is the ordinary word for “godown” or “store house.” Hence  or  really means “the home” or “storehouse of the foetus” of living beings. Or, again, this last word tumbu might well be compared with the Russian домъ “home,” the final ъ of the Russian word being taken for the Ainu or, and thus we are brought to Latin domus.

A comparison of the Ainu word with the Welsh garu is also interesting for both are identical in meaning, which is