大和

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大和

1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
4. (～鄉) Dahe (a township in Bazhou district, Bazhong, Sichuan, China)

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和

1. Yamato (ancient name for Japan)
2. (～市) Yamato (a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
3. (～國) Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture
4. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 大和, Yamato

• 日本 (Rìběn)
• 倭 (wō)

⟨yamato₂⟩: * → /jamato/

From older 邪馬台 (yamatai). From Old Japanese 大和 (yamato₂), from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Originally a geographical region in Nara, came to refer to all of Nara, and eventually to the country as a whole: Japan.

Chinese texts often used the word 倭 (“dwarf, midget”) to refer to the people of the Japanese archipelago, possibly because they were actually smaller, or more likely as an insult. This character came to be used in early Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū poetry compilation, with a kun'yomi or native-Japanese reading of Yamato to refer to Japan in general.

This 倭 character also has an on'yomi or borrowed Chinese reading of wa. During the reign of Empress Genmei (707–715), the 倭 character with an original Chinese meaning of “midget, dwarf” was replaced with the 和 character that is also read wa, but instead has the more favorable meaning of “harmony”, in spellings of the native Japanese term Yamato. The 大 character meaning “great” was then prefixed to this. The resulting kanji compound 大和 can also be read with a kun'yomi of Ōyamato (see below).

• (Tokyo) やまと (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

大和(やまと) • (Yamato) 

1. a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area
2. a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
3. one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
4. the country of Japan
5. a World War II battleship (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
6. a male given name
7. a surname

• (Japan): 日本 (Nihon, Nippon)

(Japan):

• → Chinese: 大和 (Dàhé)

• 奈良(なら) (Nara)

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of 大 (ō, “great, big”) +‎ 和 (Yamato, “the ancient Yamato kingdom; Japan”). The kanji spelling is an example of ateji (当て字).

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大(おお)和(やまと) • (Ōyamato) ^{←おほやまと (Ofoyamato)?}

1. (historical) one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
2. (poetic) the country of Japan

• 奈良(なら) (Nara)

Appears to be a borrowing from Middle Chinese 大和 (MC dajH|daH hwa|hwaH).

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大(だい)和(わ) • (Daiwa) 

1. an era in history:
   1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
   2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
   3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
2. a place:
   1. a neighborhood of Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture
   2. a township in Bazhong, Sichuan, China

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatuː/

大和(やまと゚ぅー) (Yamatū) 

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu) 

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with mainland Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu) 

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia) (particularly mainland Japan, in contrast to Okinawa)
2. Satsuma, Japan

• Because 大和 (Yamatu) may also refer to Satsuma, 大大和 (Ufuyamatu) is used to clearly refer to mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa.

大和(うふやまとぅ) (Ufuyamatu) 

1. alternative form of 大大和: Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia) (particularly mainland Japan, in contrast to Okinawa)

• “やまとぅ【大和・倭】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局)
• “ヤマト（やまと）” in Okinawan Dialect Dictionary - Ajima.

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu) 

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /damatu/

大和(だまとぅ) (Damatu) 

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

• “だまとぅ【大和・倭】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.