Talk:エペㇾ

Seems dubious
As noted also at User talk:Adventuregirl182:

"I can find several words for in Ainu, including and, but none of them are, and indeed I can find no such word in Ainu of any meaning.  Where did you get this term?"

If User:Adventuregirl182 does not comment and no other user chimes in with a good source, this term may be nominated for deletion. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:32, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–September 2017
See Talk:エペㇾ. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 18:55, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems to come from this website, where eper is listed as meaning “bear (animal)”. The website extracted it from The Languages of Japan by Masayoshi Shibatani, which used it in two example sentences. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 04:35, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * , I presume this is a sufficient source. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:30, 26 August 2017 (UTC)


 * No response, so this is RFV passed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:58, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Apologies; I'm late getting back to this.
 * The linked ainuenglish.html web page explains that the terms listed may be dialectal or classical. I am loath to include anything from that list that cannot be corroborated from other sources.
 * The Bihoro online textbook for Ainu is the only fully reputable source I've been able to find that includes this term, with an apparent meaning of . See the bottom of page 89 in the PDF here.  The Latin-alphabet text is searchable, but the PDF was apparently created with the wrong encoding, so while it is legible to humans, none of the kana text is machine-searchable.
 * I'll edit the entry accordingly.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 23:20, 14 September 2017 (UTC)