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单词 ainu
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Ainun.adj.

Brit. /ˈʌɪnuː/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌnu/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Ainus.
Forms: 1800s Aino, 1800s Ainoo, 1800s Ino, 1800s– Ainou (rare), 1800s– Ainu, 1900s– Aynu.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Japanese. Partly a borrowing from Ainu. Etymons: Japanese Ainu; Ainu Ainu.
Etymology: < (i) Japanese Ainu, †Aino and its etymon (ii) Ainu Ainu, self-designation, literally ‘man, human being’.
A. n.
1. A member of (the people descended from) an indigenous people of northern Japan, formerly also living in neighbouring islands and parts of the adjacent Russian mainland.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [noun]
Circassian1555
Svan1601
Mingrelian1613
Abkhaz1686
Abaza1693
Lezgin1728
Ossetian1794
Abkhazian1799
Adyghe1799
Ainu1811
Chechen1814
Ossete1814
Kabardian1824
Tat1834
Laz1836
Caucasian1843
Svanetian1854
Ossetin1869
Gurian1876
Avar1881
Ingush1902
Megrelian1961
Megrel1967
the world > people > ethnicities > Caucasoid people of Japan > [noun]
Ainu1811
1811 Q. Rev. Dec. 385 The native name..is Sandan, and that of the inhabitants, Ainos, who are precisely the same people with those who occupy Jesso, and the whole of the Kuriles islands.
1819 tr. V. M. Golovnin Recoll. Japan v. 242 Their manners shew that the Ainu and Kuriles are one people.
1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man v. 127 We find a small, nearly extinct tribe of the Kuril islands,—the Ainos.
1893 A. H. S. Landor (title) Alone with the Hairy Ainu.
1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) xiii. 666 The existence of really primitive and undeveloped peoples in small numbers, like the white hairy Ainu or the pygmies.
1990 D. Shavit U.S. in Asia 391 He [sc. David Penhallow] lived for many months among the Ainus, and is credited with being the first Westerner to have been accorded that privilege.
2011 Kingaroy (Queensland) Mail (Nexis) 19 Jan. 14 The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos.
2. The language traditionally spoken by this people.The language is generally regarded as being a language isolate, with no recognized genealogical relationship to other language families. It now has very few speakers.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [noun] > Korean or Ainu
Korean1813
Ainu1880
1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 37 He spoke both Aino and Japanese.
1891 E. M. Bliss Encycl. Missions I. 33/2 Ainu, the language spoken by the Ainos.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 411 Ainu, spoken by some 20,000 people in the southern part of the island of Sakhalin.
1994 J. S. Olson Ethnohistorical Dict. Russ. & Soviet Empires 22 Ainu is spoken by only a few people who use it when reciting epics and ballads.
2009 L. Stassen Predicative Possession iii. 93 In Ainu, an isolate language from northern Japan, the possessive construction features the clause-final item kor.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Ainu or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [adjective]
Circassian1638
Alan1705
Lezgin1780
Abkhaz1788
Mingrelian1788
Ossetin1788
Abaza1823
Lezgi1828
Ainua1837
Adyghe1847
Ossetic1850
Ossetian1854
Svanetian1854
Abkhazian1856
Avarian1875
Ossete1884
Ossetan1892
Kabardian1902
Gurian1932
a1837 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIV. 265/1 They supply the Russians with sea-otter-skins, (rakko, in the Aïno tongue yeri).
1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man v. 127 The Japanese tradition, that the Aino mothers suckled young bears, which gradually became men.
1887 Academy 6 Aug. 92/2 It was a perusal of the Karafuto Nikki..that led me to suppose that some place-names in Japan might be of Ainu origin.
1952 P. Wheeler Sacred Script. of Japanese v. 436 Ainu folklore is peculiarly rich in the true beast fable.
2007 Guardian 9 Feb. (Film & Music section) 11/4 The tonkori, an Ainu stringed instrument.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1811
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