イナゥ

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Ainu

イナゥ.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Proto-Ainu *inaqu LL (“to perform inau ritual”).

Possibly related to Manchu ᡳᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (ilambi, to blossom) and Manchu ᡳᠯᡥᠠ (ilha, a flower).

Noun

イナゥ (Latin spelling inaw)

  1. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kuril) A sacred shaved stick, symbolizing a bird, used for prayer

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: inau
  • Japanese: イナウ
  • Nivkh: инау (inau), нау (nau)
  • Oroch: илау (ilau)
  • Orok: и̇лау̇ (ïlaü)

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (1993) Leiden: E.J. Brill, editors, A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.
  • 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 174
  • 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
  • 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―石狩川― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Ishikari River, Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Ishikari River) (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture), 2014 (Hokkaido)
  • 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―カラフト― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Karafuto River, Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Karafuto River) (in Japanese), Sapporo, Hokkaidō: 公益財団法人アイヌ文化振興・研究推進機構 (Zaidan Hōjin Ainu Bunka Shinkō / Kenkyū Suishin Kikō, Foundation for the Advancement, Research, and Promotion of Ainu Culture), 2014 (Sakhalin)
  • 『千島アイヌ』「千島地名普通單語集」 (Chishima Ainu - Chishima Chimei Futsū Tango Shū, Kuril Islands Ainu - Kuril place name common word list) (in Japanese), Hokkaidō: 鳥居龍藏 (Torii Ryūzō), 1903 (Kuril)