Yoshinu no kaha no

toko name no

tayurukoto naku

mata kaherimimu. 5

3 kikoshiwosu; wosu is to eat; kikoshi, honour-causative intensitive of kiku, hear, have sensation of, taste, judge, &c.; the whole = kikoshimesu, to be supreme over, govern. The idea, perhaps, was that of the chief having complete control of all the wealth of the tribe originally for the subsistence of himself and his gesyth.

5 shi mo, a pair of emphatic particles. Shi perhaps was originally this or that, or this or that self (or it may be root of suru, to do, act); mo is merely, also, too. Shi mo almost = naho.

6 saha, abundant. The homonym saha also means a marshy valley-bottom, in Japano-Chinese taku. Hence by a rebus-wise use of the Chinese character taku continued with san mountain (yama) came to be takusan, a common word for much, many.

11 For hana-chiru.

19 kihohi = kisohi (gihohi).

26 taki or tagi = cascade, rapids, descriptive of neighbourhood of the miyako.