マキリ

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Ainu

マキリ.

Pronunciation

Noun

マキリ (Latin spelling makiri)

  1. kind of small knife
  2. butcher knife

Descendants

  • Japanese: まぎり (magiri)
  • Oroch: магири (magiri)

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 258
  • 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