Examples of Ainu

‘(My grandfather) covered up something that looked like a bundle of fish with his clothing.’

‘Lay one on top of another / (He/she) lays/laid (them/a thing) on top of another.’

‘Penampe grabbed his penis and covered (it) with his hand.’

‘She put the fish into the boat (and stood on the bow of the boat).’

‘The dog is tied in front of the tree.’

‘Tie (it) to the tree.’

‘(Since I cut his throat I could not carry him on my back, so) I tied his throat with a rope and (dragged him).’

‘Pour at least some lamp oil there and light it.’

‘If I see my younger sister go down to the river to fetch some water...’

‘Cover ground with sth. / He/she covers/covered ground with it.’

‘My elder brothers also had many children.’

‘Grandfather put the dish down on the ground.’

‘(The woman) placed my luggage at the upper seat of honor, and I sat at the lower seat of honor.’

‘I took off all her clothing (from her).’

‘Put to a different house / He/she put him/her to a different house.’

‘I took out my fish net and threw it to the lake.’

‘Panampe was going to throw the ball of black string behind himself.’

‘I made a big boat and threw myself to the middle of the boat.’

‘It is a little fish but bring at least half of it to your grandmother.’

‘I (a god) took into my hands a small gold bow and a small gold arrow together.’

‘(They) brought delicious things to each other.’

‘They brought it together.’

‘The next morning, older brothers brought home a boatful of fish.’

‘Anna brought me some water. /lit. Anna brought water and gave it to me.’

‘The (remaining) half of the Ainu carried all of that rich man’s belongings to the the rich man at Upstream Ishikari.’

‘Thanks to my divine nephew Ainurakkur my younger sister has been carried to me.’

‘The man who married the wife of the elder from above the village carried the things from the house of the man from above the village to his boat.’

‘Then I carried the fish.’

‘(I carried the things that the wise man had owned.) Then I paid the villagers and they carried (the things).’

‘Bring sth/sb together. / He/She brought them together.’

‘Ito carried honeysuckle and walnut together.’

‘Please for my sake save my brother and carry him to my village and my castle.’

‘(He instructed us to) send him to the dog master.’

‘Then they send the following message to the world-creator god.’

‘Anna gave me a sewing (lit. let me have a sewing).’

‘We paid each person who came with us to carry the things down.’

‘As to my sewing and Anna’s sewing, we (you and I) gave (them) to each other (lit. let each other have them).’

‘Since your childhood we agreed to give you (as bride and bridegroom) to each other, and so we live (lit. let you have each other).’

‘I will show you the bed.’

‘We had to show our children to uncles, so...’

‘(I did not swallow snakes.) I have just shown myself like this to the gods, I have shown myself like this to you.’

‘Anna and granny showed each other their headbands.’

‘Don't show me to him (lit. Don't let him see my appearance!)!’

‘In March, the shell fish wanted to show itself to the wild goose and got fat.’

‘Have you shown your nude body (lit. yourself) to the human god Okikurmi?’

‘The girl hid the basket from her grandmother.’

‘I hid my buttocks and head by pulling them to my body (lit. hid at myself).’

‘(I sang) that I would take from my husband his loincloth and clothes.’

‘I vigorously swept the rubbish and scrapped it and took it off outside.’

‘I swept and wiped inside the house with all my might.’

‘Then it sounded as if, in order to let me in, the woman was sweeping.’

‘We wished that the Aconite-poison gods would be wiped away to hell (=wet low country).’

‘Total devastation by war [or flood].’

‘Cut that branch with a saw.’

‘The man I was thinking about...cut the thing called a door bamboo blind with a sword.’

‘To kill fish the Ainu hit it repeatedly with a piece of rotten wood.’

‘They have beaten the mermaid altogether and killed him.’

‘I thought I was close to smashing and killing these children altogether.’

‘I repeatedly struck my hand on the tree (because I killed my brothers).’

‘I hit myself repeatedly and jumped.’

‘Sharpen your sword and your mountain knife, and kill the cat (that we used to have) with them.’

‘Fight and kill each other.’

‘(I felt) I will be killed (by my siblings and parents).’

‘Kill oneself. / He/she killed himself/herself.’

‘He broke the boat lids (with the stick) until (it was possible) to enter them.’

‘My garment is torn.’

‘Grandmother then cut reed grass with her mountain knife and built a small house with that reed grass where they lived.’

‘So, I built a house here.’

‘What do you use for this these small mugwort arrows?’

‘It seemed that that young woman said to my husband that I was (there).’

‘They quarreled with each other.’

‘I will tell you the story of the ancestors.’

‘That younger man …filled the pot with food (to cook it).’

‘You will be notified.’

‘I made you think that I am a god on purpose.’

‘Thanks to my sending message to the Ainu rich man, a village chief of Shinutapka at Tomesan river...’

‘The couple of the master of the house told me stories about various things.’

‘We told to each other various stories about gods and about the Ainu of the past.’

‘They are asking me for the payment (lit. 'the payment for (it)' as is expressed by the possessive marking).’

‘Each time he invited to his place (lit. to him) rich men and brave men from surounding villages, he killed them.’

‘He really talked to me about these matters.’

‘(At night, we would gather and) and talk about hunting and other things.’

‘Even the youngsters from Upstream Ishikari knew me.’

‘Know yourself! (imperative) / He/she knows him/herself.’

‘Do you remember the way if we were to go there?’

‘Grandfather saw grandmother.’

‘We haven't seen each other for three years.’

‘Compare sth with sth / he/she compares sth with sth.’

‘The pup looked up at the tree and then looked at me.’

‘As I looked at the side of (this) little river, I went to the source of (this) little river.’

‘Water goddess! Please please protect us in our trip!’

‘He frightened me.’

‘Hurry somebody about something.’

‘Our people had a great fuss.’

‘That bear is afraid of me as well.’

‘All the Ainu are afraid of (smallpox from a smallpox god).’

‘It is an evil god, so we are altogether afraid of him.’

‘I felt even more ashamed because they bullied me that I was the descendant of a poor/bad person / lit. bullied that she is the descendant of a poor/bad person.’

‘Do you like soup?’

‘(Among) the Japanese women, there were those who liked me.’

‘(They) like each other/sleep.’

‘Grandfather and grandmother loved me dearly.’

‘It seems that children play with each other as friends!’

‘The brothers ignored their own children, and adored only my child.’

‘Throughout my childhood, my elder brother and sister cared for me, and so we lived.’

‘I was searching for you here, because I wanted to meet you.’

‘I came down the mountain looking for people (and found this house).’

‘I search looking on top of this (but did not notice it).’

‘My father was a really good hunter, (so everyday he brought as game a deer or bear).’

‘(I was now able to speak. ) I had met the kamui father and had immediately been able to speak.’

‘He/She is following me.’

‘In any way, no one must follow you, so...’

‘(Older sister went down and started to gather firewood.) Then I helped older sister.’

‘I did not help my sisters with anything.’

‘(Our grandmother) from evening went (to the place where a wife had died) and is helping there.’

‘A man responsible for cooking fish cooked fish, and a man responsible for cooking meat cooked meat, and so they helped each other.’

‘Help oneself, be(come) independent / he/she helped himself/herself, be(came) independent.’

‘What do you want to eat?’

‘Older sister had prepared dinner, so we ate dinner.’

‘Practice cannibalism.’

‘Villagers get deer gain and eat deer meat altogether.’

‘Whatever I ate, I ate it without (a side dish).’

‘(I carried her down, and raised her.) Second older sister dressed(lit. 'made her wear cloths') her and (in this manner) we led our lives.’

‘We can provide our food and we can provide the things we wear.’

‘Right away, my wife boiled some water, and washed the baby’s body carefully.’

‘I boiled water and happily washed myself.’

‘My mother coughed and coughed.’

‘Is it not difficult to climb this mountain?’

‘You climbed this mountain at one try.’

‘(The fox) climbed halfway up the mountain and...’

‘I entered the village chief’s house, shaking all over. I sat down near the front door.’

‘Since I gave inaw-prayer sticks to gods who live in (lit. sit in) the mountains, (please protect me).’

‘He came right in front of me, so I sat down properly (on the floor).’

‘It was the girls' running contest (lit. 'since girls ran'), so we went to watch it.’

‘I ran over tree tops of low trees.’

‘I saw wild beasts running and jumping around.’

‘It felt as if someone grabbed me and then ran to the mountains, holding me.’

‘The baby jumped on the seat of honor.’

‘"Grandmother" the young men said and jumping at my grandmother ( they embraced her, crying).’

‘Two short clouds, three short clouds jumped altogether.’

‘I wanted to go to the hunting cabin.’

‘(IfＩdie at the place of devil),Ｉwill go to hell (lit. to the place of devil).’

‘You must never go to that young poor man’s place.’

‘I came (here) for sightseeing.’

‘How many years have you lived in this village?’

‘It seemed that there appeared two men (on the road).’

‘What time does the moon appear?’

‘I will sing a song, so you should also sing.’

‘Grandmother would sing while drawing water and she would sing while preparing meals...’

‘Will a bear die if this arrow hits it?’