エトゥ

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Ainu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Proto-Ainu *Etu LL (“nose”).

Noun

エトゥ (etu)

  1. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kuril, South Kuril) nose
  2. a bird's bill or beak
  3. a spout
  4. the tip of a knife or sword

Pronunciation

Map of Ainu Language: Nose
dialect table: nose (1960)
area pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲) 'etú
Oshamambe (長万部) 'etú
Horobetsu (幌別) 'etú
Hiratori (平取) 'etú
Nukkibetsu (貫気別) 'etú
Niikappu (新冠) 'etú
Samani (様似) 'ecu
Obihiro (帯広) 'etú
Kushiro (釧路) 'etú
Bihoro (美幌) 'etú
Asahikawa (旭川) 'etú
Nayoro (名寄) 'etú
Soya (宗谷) 'etú
Ochiho (落帆) 'etupuy
Tarantomari (多蘭泊) 'etupuy
Maoka (真岡) 'etupuy
Shiraura (白浦) 'etupuy
Raichishka (ライチシカ) 'etu
Nairo (内路) 'etupuy

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
  2. ^ 服部四郎・知里真志保 (Shirō Hattori & Mashiho Chiri) (1960) 『アイヌ語諸方言の基礎語彙統計学的研究』「民族學研究」 (Ainu Go Shohōgen No Kiso Goi Tōkeigaku Teki Kenkyū, A Lexicostatistic Study on the Ainu Dialects) (in Japanese), Japan: 日本文化人類学会 (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology)
  • Batchelor, John (1926) An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
  • 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―石狩川― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Ishikari River, Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Ishikari River) (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture), 2014 (Hokkaido)
  • 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―カラフト― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Karafuto River, Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Karafuto River) (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture), 2014 (Sakhalin)
  • DYBOWSKI のシュムシュ島アイヌ語資料について(第1部) (DYBOWSKI No Shumushu Tō Ainu Go Shiryō Ni Tsuite (Dai 1 Bu), On DYBOWSKI's Shumshu Island Ainu Language Materials (Part 1)) (in Japanese), Fukuoka: 村山七郎 (Murayama Shichirō), 1970 (Kuril)
  • Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811), Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)