コタン
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Ainu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See Proto-Uralic *kota.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]コタン (Latin spelling kotan)
- (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kuril) village
- town, settlement
- (Kuril, North Kuril) island
- (Kuril) land
- (Kuril) country
- (Kuril) place

area | pronunciation |
---|---|
Yakumo (八雲) | kotán, -ú |
Horobetsu (幌別) | kotán, -ú |
Saru (沙流) | kotán, -ú |
Obihiro (帯広) | kotán, -ú |
Bihoro (美幌) | kotan |
Asahikawa (旭川) | kotán |
Nayoro (名寄) | kotán |
Soya (宗谷) | kotán |
Karafuto (樺太) | kotan, -uhu |
Chishima (千島) | kotan |
Derived terms
[edit]- オヤンルルコタン
- コタンコㇿカムイ (“a species of owl”)
- コタンシルルクソヲヤベ (“south (Kuril dialect)”)
- コタンマウ (“air (Kuril dialect)”)
- コタンマカロコソラト (“north (Kuril dialect)”)
- シコタン (“Shikotan”)
- ネㇺ オロ コタン (“place of ponds; Nemuro”)
Descendants
[edit]- →⇒ Japanese: 鶏 (kutakake, kudakake)
References
[edit]- ^ 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”)
- John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)[2], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 245
- Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies[3], volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93
- 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”)[4] (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)
- 単語リスト(アイヌ語・日本語)―カラフト― (Tango List Ainu-go Nihon-go - Karafuto River, “Word List (Ainu / Japanese) - Karafuto River”)[5] (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 (Sakhalin)