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Ainu
Etymology
From アイヌ (“human”) + モシㇼ (“land”). Attested as early as 1822 as "Aïno-Moxori" the name of Hokkaido, meaning "land of the Aino ".
Pronunciation
Noun
アイヌモシㇼ (Latin spelling aynumosir)
- the land of humans; the earth
- the land of the Ainu people: Hokkaidō, southern Sakhalin, or the Kuril Islands, northern Honshu
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- カムイモシㇼ (“land of the gods, heaven”)
- レプンモシㇼ (“offshore land; usually Honshu”)
References
- ^ Antedatings of Japanese Loanwords in the OED2, pg. 143, Isamu Hayakawa
- ^ Universal Geography, or a Description of All the Parts of the World, Book XLI, p. 508, by M. Malte-Brun, 1822: "The Jesuit Father Des Anges even saw this strait, described its terrible currents, and learned that the land beyond it, the island of Seghalien, was named Aïno-Moxori. This name signifies the isle of the Aïnos"
Further reading
- Hudson, Mark J. (1999) Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN