コタン

Ainu

Etymology

See Proto-Uralic *kota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kò̞ꜛtán/

Noun

コタン (Latin spelling kotan)

1. village
2. (Kuril) island

Descendants

• →⇒ Japanese: 鶏 (kutakake, kudakake)

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 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