ムックリ
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Ainu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Proto-Tungusic *muk(k)änä (“mouth harp”), especially if one takes into account Sakhalin Ainu ムㇷクㇴ (muhkun) and ムㇷクㇴ (muhkuna), with final /n/ instead of /r/. Compare Negidal мухэнэ (muxənə), Ulch мухэлэ (muxələ), Orok мухане̄ (muxan'ē), мухэнэ (muxənə), Nanai муэнэ̄ (muenē) and Manchu ᠮᡝᡴᡝᠨᡳ (mekeni).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ムックリ (Latin spelling mukkuri)
- A traditional Ainu musical instrument similar to a Jew's harp.
Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: ムックリ (mukkuri)
References[edit]
- ^ De La Fuentes, José Andrés Alonso (2014) “Sakhalin Ainu utar ~ utah and Common Ainu *-r”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[1], volume 131, page 130 of 121–136.
- ^ Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Leningrad: Nauka, page 554.
Further reading[edit]
- John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)[2], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 273
Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ainu ムックリ (mukkuri).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a kind of bamboo Jew's harp used by the Ainu people
Usage notes[edit]
Not to be confused with adverb むっくり (mukkuri), which has pitch accent pattern 3, with a downstep just before the り (ri) mora.