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Ainu
Etymology
See Proto-Uralic *kota.
Pronunciation
Noun
コタン (Latin spelling kotan)
- village
- (dialectal, 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