モシㇼ

Ainu

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Attested as early as 1822 as "Aïno-Moxori" 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]".[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mò̞ꜛɕíɾ]

Noun

モシㇼ (Latin spelling mosir)

  1. country, land
  2. (Hokkaido, Kuril, South Kuril) island
  3. world
    Synonym: モシッ (mosit)

Derived terms

  • 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”)
  • 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)
  • リクンモシㇼ (rikun mosir, “heaven”, literally “above land”)
  • レプンモシㇼ (repun mosir, “Honshu”, literally “offshore land”)

See also

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

  • 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)
  • 和愛辞典 草稿版 Sísamitak-Aynuitak-Eonnekunnep Ciietokenuyep (Waai Jiten, “Japanese Ainu Language Dictionary”)‎[3] (in Japanese), Hokkaidō: 太田 満 (Oota Mitsuru, “Oota Mitsuru”), 2022, page 383
  • Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)‎[4], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)
  • Hudson, Mark J. (1999) Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN
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