ムックリ

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Ainu

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ムックリ.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Tungusic *muk(k)änä (“mouth harp”), especially if one takes into account Sakhalin Ainu ムㇷクㇴ (muhkun) and ムㇷクㇴ (muhkuna), with final /n/ instead of /r/. Compare Negidal мухэнэ (muxənə), Ulch мухэлэ (muxələ), Orok мухане̄ (muxan'ē), мухэнэ (muxənə), Nanai муэнэ̄ (muenē) and Manchu ᠮᡝᡴᡝᠨᡳ (mekeni).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /múkꜜkùɾʲì/, /múkꜜkùɾ/

Noun

ムックリ (Latin spelling mukkuri)

  1. A traditional Ainu musical instrument similar to a Jew's harp.

Descendants

  • → Japanese: ムックリ (mukkuri)

References

  1. ^ De La Fuentes, José Andrés Alonso (2014) “Sakhalin Ainu utar ~ utah and Common Ainu *-r”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎, volume 131, page 130 of 121–136.
  2. ^ Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Leningrad: Nauka, page 554.

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 273

Japanese

Etymology

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ムックリ (mukkuri): a traditional Ainu mukkuri.

Borrowed from Ainu ムックリ (mukkuri).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

ムックリ • (mukkuri) 

  1. a kind of bamboo Jew's harp used by the Ainu people

Usage notes

Not to be confused with adverb むっくり (mukkuri), which has pitch accent pattern 3, with a downstep just before the り (ri) mora.

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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