アイヌモシㇼ

Ainu

Etymology

From アイヌ (“human”) +‎ モシㇼ (“land”). Attested as early as 1822 as "Aïno-Moxori" the name of Hokkaido, meaning "land of the Aino [Ainu]".[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʔájꜜnù mò̞ꜛɕír]

Noun

アイヌモシㇼ (Latin spelling aynumosir)

  2. the land of humans; the earth
  3. the land of the Ainu people: Hokkaidō, southern Sakhalin, or the Kuril Islands, northern Honshu

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

  • カムイモシㇼ (“land of the gods, heaven”)
  • レプンモシㇼ (“offshore land; usually Honshu”)

References

  1. ^ Antedatings of Japanese Loanwords in the OED2, pg. 143, Isamu Hayakawa
  2. ^ Universal Geography, or a Description of All the Parts of the World, Book XLI, p. 508, by M. Malte-Brun, 1822: "The Jesuit Father Des Anges even saw this strait, described its terrible currents, and learned that the land beyond it, the island of Seghalien, was named Aïno-Moxori. This name signifies the isle of the Aïnos"

Further reading

  • Hudson, Mark J. (1999) Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN
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