Talk:マイン

RFV discussion: January 2021–November 2023

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マイン

Japanese. Re-listing from April 2021, as several other items in that thread passed attestation. Cnilep (talk) 06:52, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

# [[mine]]

—Suzukaze-c (talk) 00:37, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

It's not common (except in reference to Minecraft or the like), but I found three quotations in various books. Also, the German proper noun Main is more common, so I added a separate etymology. Cnilep (talk) 05:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

The マイン社 of 『ユートロニカのこちら側』 doesn't seem to be related to mining: google:"ユートロニカのこちら側" "マイン社" → アガスティアリゾート―マイン社が運営するサンフランシスコ沖合の特別提携地区 情報銀行を経営しているマイン社 —Fish bowl (talk) 01:42, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I know very little Japanese, but the fact that the Japanese place names in the 1929 and 1957 quotes correspond syllable-by-syllable with the original English names makes me nervous. How do we know that they aren't just transliterating the entire place names as monolithic blocks of foreign text? Why do we assume that the "マイン" in "ブロークン　ヒル　マイン", is a Japanese word for "mine" but not that "ブロークン" is a Japanese word for "broken" or "ヒル" is a Japanese word for "hill"? Chuck Entz (talk) 03:41, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz I'm not terribly enthusiastic about these quotes either but it's also been marked as {{lb|ja|only in compounds}}. —Fish bowl (talk) 09:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

RFV passed (or at least not failed?) Cnilep (talk) 22:56, 24 November 2023 (UTC)