マタ

Ainu

Alternative forms

マタイタ (Sakhalin)
マタㇺ (Kuril)

Noun

マタ • (mata)

(Hokkaido, Kuril, South Kuril) winter

dialect table: winter (1964)^[1]
area	pronunciation
Yakumo (八雲)	matá; matapá
Horobetsu (幌別)	matá; matá'ita [副]
Saru (沙流)	matá; matápa; sírmatá《冬になる》
Obihiro (帯広)	matá
Bihoro (美幌)	mata
Asahikawa (旭川)	matá
Nayoro (名寄)	matá
Soya (宗谷)	matá (雪が降って年をとる)
Karafuto (樺太)	matayta (1-2 月)
Chishima (千島)	mata (133); matam (162)

References

^ 服部四郎 (Shirō Hattori) (1964) アイヌ語方言辞典 (Ainu Go Hōgen Jiten, “An Ainu Dialect Dictionary”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Japan: 岩波書店 (“Iwanami Shoten”)

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)

DYBOWSKI のシュムシュ島アイヌ語資料について（第1部） (DYBOWSKI No Shumushu Tō Ainu Go Shiryō Ni Tsuite (Dai 1 Bu), “On DYBOWSKI's Shumshu Island Ainu Language Materials (Part 1)”)‎^[3] (in Japanese), Fukuoka: 村山七郎 (Murayama Shichirō), 1970 (Kuril)

Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)‎^[4], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)