モシㇼ
Ainu
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[edit]Etymology
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First attested in a 1591 Latin manuscript titled "De yezorum insula" as part of アイヌモシㇼ, transcribed as "Aino moxori" or "Aino mosir" as the name of Hokkaido, meaning "land of the Aino [Ainu]".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]モシㇼ (Latin spelling mosir)
Derived terms
[edit]- アィヌモシㇼ (aynu mosir, “Hokkaido, the world of humans”, literally “Ainu land, people land”)
- アコㇿモシㇼ (akor mosir, “Hokkaido”, literally “our land”)
- ウㇰライナ モシㇼ (Ukraina mosir, “Ukraine”)
- カムイモシㇼ (kamuy mosir, “heaven”, literally “gods land”)
- コレヤ モシㇼ (Koreya mosir, “Korea”)
- サモㇿモシㇼ (samor mosir, “Honshu; Japan”, literally “next-door land”)
- シサㇺモシㇼ (Sisam mosir, “Japan”, literally “foreigner land”)
- チン モシㇼ (Cin mosir, “China”)
- テイネポㇰナモシㇼ (teyne pokna mosir, “hell”)
- ヌチャモシㇼ (nuca mosir, “Russia”)
- ポㇰナモシㇼ (pokna mosir, “underworld”, literally “the world below”)
- リクンモシㇼ (rikun mosir, “heaven”, literally “above land”)
- レプンモシㇼ (repun mosir, “Honshu”, literally “offshore land”)
- ヤウンモシㇼ (yaun mosir, “the earth, the world; Hokkaido”)
- ヤンケモシリ (yanke mosir, “land on land; Sakhalin”) (Sakhalin Ainu)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)[1], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 270
- 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”)[2] (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)