单词 | ainu |
释义 | Ainun.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1811 |
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