コタン

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Ainu

Etymology

See Proto-Uralic *kota.

Pronunciation

Noun

コタン (Latin spelling kotan)

  1. village
  2. (Kuril) island

Descendants

  • →⇒ Japanese: 鶏 (kutakake, kudakake)

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 245
  • Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies‎, volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93
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