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Ainu
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 馬 (uma). The geminate nasal may reflect an emphasized nasal in older Japanese pronunciation; see the etymology at Japanese 馬 for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
ウンマ (Latin spelling umma)
- horse
Further reading
- 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 475