イナゥ

Ainu

イナゥ.

Alternative forms

• イナオ, イナウ

Noun

イナゥ (Latin spelling inaw)

1. A sacred shaved stick, symbolizing a bird, used for prayer

Descendants

• → Nivkh: инау (inau), нау (nau)
• → Oroch: илау (ilau)
• → Orok: и̇лау̇ (ïlaü)

References

• John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎^[1], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 174
• Vovin, Alexander V. (2018) “Four Tungusic Etymologies”, in Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Christopher P. Atwood, editors, Philology of the Grasslands. Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies (Languages of Asia; 17)‎^[2], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 366–368