パスイ

Ainu

Alternative forms

パシユイ
パスィ

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 箸 (hashi), possibly Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pasui.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pa.súj/

Noun

パスイ • (pasui)

(Hokkaido) chopsticks
(Kuril, South Kuril) spoon

dialect table: chopsticks (1964)^[1]
area	pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲)	pasúy, -é; 'ipepásuy
Horobetsu (幌別)	('ipé-)pasúy
Saru (沙流)	pasúy
Obihiro (帯広)	pasúy
Bihoro (美幌)	pasuy
Asahikawa (旭川)	pasúy; 'ipépasuy
Nayoro (名寄)	pasúy; 'ci'éypepasuy
Soya (宗谷)	pasúy
Karafuto (樺太)	sahka
Chishima (千島)	euturumbe(箸148)

References

^ 服部四郎 (Shirō Hattori) (1964) アイヌ語方言辞典 (Ainu Go Hōgen Jiten, “An Ainu Dialect Dictionary”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Japan: 岩波書店 (“Iwanami Shoten”)

Batchelor, John (1926) An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
単語リスト（アイヌ語・日本語）―石狩川― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Ishikari River, “Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Ishikari River”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, “Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture”), 2014 (Hokkaido)

DYBOWSKI のシュムシュ島アイヌ語資料について（第1部） (DYBOWSKI No Shumushu Tō Ainu Go Shiryō Ni Tsuite (Dai 1 Bu), “On DYBOWSKI's Shumshu Island Ainu Language Materials (Part 1)”)‎^[3] (in Japanese), Fukuoka: 村山七郎 (Murayama Shichirō), 1970 (Kuril)

Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)‎^[4], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)