モシㇼ
Ainu
Alternative forms
- モシリ
Etymology
Speculatively, possibly cognate with Middle Korean ᄆᆞᅀᆞᆶ (mòzòlh, “village”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mò̞ꜛɕíɾ]
Noun
モシㇼ (Latin spelling mosir)
- country, land
- island
- world
Derived terms
- アィヌモシㇼ (aynu mosir, “Hokkaido”, literally “Ainu land, people land”)
- ウㇰライナ モシㇼ (Ukraina mosir, “Ukraine”)
- カムィモシㇼ (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”)
- ヌチャモシㇼ (nuca mosir, “Russia”)
References
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.