List of Ainu Terms - H

H

• hacir (ハチリ) - to fall
  • hacire (ハチレ) - to make fall, to knock over
• ham (ハㇺ) - leaf (possessed form hamu or hamuhu)
• hanke (ハンケ) - to be near
• hanku (ハンク) - navel (dialectal variants include hankapu ハンカプ, hankapuy ハンカプィ, hanka ハンカ, hanko ハンコ)
• hapo (ハポ) - mother
• hapur (ハプㇽ) - to be weak, to be soft, to be gentle, to be quiet (also アプㇽ apur in some dialects)
• harki (ハㇻキ) - left (左) (dialectal variants include harke ハㇻケ)
  • harki-sam (ハㇻキサㇺ) - left side
• haw (ハゥ) - voice (possessed form hawe ハウェ or hawehe ハウェへ)
  • hawean (ハウェアン) - to say, to speak
  • haweoka (ハウェオカ) - to say, to speak
• hayta (ハィタ) - not to be enough, to be insufficient, to come short of, to be lacking; to decrease; to be stupid, to be foolish
  • haytap (ハィタㇷ゚) - a fool
• hekaci (ヘカチ) - child (esp. a male one), boy, lad; son (also エカチ ekaci in some dialects; the plural form *hekaci-utar or *ekaci-utar may be fused to hekattar or ekattar and used as if singular)
• hem (ヘㇺ)
  • hemanta (へマンタ) - what? (dialectal variants include hemata へマタ)
  • hempakpe (ヘンパㇰペ) - how many (things)? (in some older documents, this word is also recorded as hempak)
  • hempara (ヘンパラ) - when? (in some dialects, ネンパラ nempara may be used instead of hempara; cf. Ainu pa "year; season")
• hese (ヘセ) - to breathe; to sigh
• hok (ホㇰ) - to buy (dialectal variants include hoh ホㇷ)
• hoku (ホク) - husband (possessed form hokuhu; dialectal variants include oku(hu))
• hom (ホㇺ) - a knot (in wood); a joint (of bamboo)
  • nihom (ニホㇺ) - a knot in wood, a knot in a tree (possessed form nihomi ニホミ; in some dialects, the two morphemes that compose this compound are maintained as separate words, i.e. ni hom instead of nihom)
  • tophom (トㇷ゚ホㇺ) - a joint of bamboo (in some dialects, this form is maintained as two separate words, i.e. top hom instead of tophom)
• homar (ホマㇻ) - to be vague, to be faint, to be indistinct, to be dim (also オマㇻ omar in some dialects)
• hon (ホン) - belly, abdomen, stomach (possessed form honi ホニ or honihi ホニヒ)
• horkew (ホㇿケゥ) - wolf (also horokew in some dialects)
• horse (ホㇿセ) - to rot, to decay; to be rotten, to be stinking, to be stale, to be sour (also ホㇱセ hosse)
• hot (ホッ) - twenty (used in counting)
  • hotne (ホッネ) - (to be) twenty
    • hotnen (ホッネン) - twenty persons
    • hotnep (ホッネㇷ゚) - twenty things
• hoynu (ホィヌ) - marten, sable
• hu (フ) - to be alive, to be living (said of a plant); to be raw, to be fresh, to be green
• huci (フチ) - grandmother; old woman (also フッチ hutci in some dialects)
• hum (フㇺ) - sound, noise (possessed form フミ humi or フミヒ humihi)
• humpe (フンペ) - whale
• hunara
  • ehunara (エフナラ) - to envy, to be jealous of
  • ipehunara (イペフナラ) - to be stingy with food, to be reluctant to give food (to another person, etc.)
• hur (フㇽ) - hill, mountain
• hura (フラ) - a smell
  • hura at (フラ　アッ) - to smell, to be/become smelly/fragrant
  • hura nu (フラ　ヌ) - to smell, to sense a smell
• huraye (フライェ) - to wash
• hure (フレ) - (to be) red
• husko (フㇱコ) - to be old, to be longstanding
• huttat (フッタッ) - bamboo grass (also フタッ hutat, フラㇱ huras, ウラㇱ uras, or フル huru depending on the dialect)