イナゥ

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Ainu

イナゥ.

Alternative forms

Noun

イナゥ (Latin spelling inaw)

  1. A sacred shaved stick, symbolizing a bird, used for prayer

Descendants

  • → Nivkh: инау (inau), нау (nau)
  • → Oroch: илау (ilau)
  • → Orok: и̇лау̇ (ïlaü)

References

  • John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎, Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 174
  • Vovin, Alexander V. (2018) “Four Tungusic Etymologies”, in Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Christopher P. Atwood, editors, Philology of the Grasslands. Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies (Languages of Asia; 17)‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 366–368
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