コタン

Ainu

Etymology

See Proto-Uralic *kota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kò̞ꜛtán/

Noun

コタン (Latin spelling kotan)

1. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kuril) village
2. town, settlement
3. (Kuril, North Kuril) island
4. (Kuril) land
5. (Kuril) country
6. (Kuril) place

Map of Ainu Language: village

dialect table: village (1964)

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

• 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

• →⇒ Japanese: 鶏 (kutakake, kudakake)

References

• 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)

• 『千島アイヌ』「千島地名普通單語集」 (Chishima Ainu - Chishima Chimei Futsū Tango Shū, “Kuril Islands Ainu - Kuril place name common word list”)‎^[6] (in Japanese), Hokkaidō: 鳥居龍藏 (Torii Ryūzō), 1903 (Kuril)

• DYBOWSKI のシュムシュ島アイヌ語資料について（第1部） (DYBOWSKI No Shumushu Tō Ainu Go Shiryō Ni Tsuite (Dai 1 Bu), “On DYBOWSKI's Shumshu Island Ainu Language Materials (Part 1)”)‎^[7] (in Japanese), Fukuoka: 村山七郎 (Murayama Shichirō), 1970 (Kuril)

• Anna Bugaeva and Tomomi Satō (2021) A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Captain V. M. Golovnin (1811)‎^[8], Tokyo: International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics (Kuril)