オートバイ
Japanese
Etymology
Clipping of オートバイシクル (ōtobaishikuru), erroneously listed in some (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese dictionaries as wasei eigo,[1][2][3][4] but actually borrowed from English autobicycle, an early (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English term for motorcycle.
Pronunciation
Noun
- a motorcycle
- Synonym: 単車 (tansha)
- a scooter (motor-scooter)
Descendants
- → Amis: otofay, tofay
- → Atayal: tubay
- → Bunun: utubai
- → Hakka: 奧多拜/奥多拜
- → Kanakanabu: 'utupai
- → Kavalan: utubay
- → Korean: 오토바이 (otobai)
- → Min Nan: 歐兜邁/欧兜迈 (ōudōumài)
- → Paiwan: utubai
- → Puyuma: utubay
- → Rukai: utubay
- → Saisiyat: 'otobay
- → Taroko: otobay
- → Tsou: 'otovai
- → Yami: otobay
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN