いちゃ
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Okinawan
[edit]Noun
[edit]いちゃ
- (Middle Okinawan, hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- a god's name
- Nantō Kayō
- いちゃやもーい/くらやもーい/いちゃが かみ/いちゃが くに/うったみる
- ichayamōi/kurayamōi/ichaga kami/ichaga kuni/uttamiru
- The shrine for Icha, / The shrine for Kura, / The god of Icha, / The land of Icha, / ??? and look.
- Note: The translation is extremely tentative. Many of the words' meaning were unknown in the dictionary. もーい similarly appears in しゅいもーい (shuimōi), a variant of Middle Okinawan しょりもり (Shorimori, a shrine in Shuri Gusuku).
Derived terms
[edit]- いちゃやもーい (ichayamōi, unknown; name of a shrine?)
References
[edit]- Okinawa Kogo Daijiten Henshū I'inkai (沖縄古語大辞典編集委員会) (1995) 沖縄古語大辞典 [Dictionary of Archaic Okinawan], Tokyo (東京都): Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店), →ISBN, page 71