Ainu edit

Etymology edit

See Proto-Uralic *kota.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

コタン (Latin spelling kotan)

  1. village
  2. (dialectal, Kuril) island

Descendants edit

  • Japanese: (kutakake, kudakake)

References edit

  • 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 245
  • Sato, Tomomi, Bugaeva, Anna (2019) “The Study of Old Documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu: Promise and Challenges”, in Northern Language Studies[2], volume 9, Hokkaido: Japan Association of Northern Languages Studies, pages 67–93