The Ainu luminary cup in the circum-Pacific language area (original) (raw)

Iwona Piechnik (ed.), Intercultural linguistic and literary studies, pp. 9-29, 2021

Abstract

In the Ainu language, the word cup means both ‘sun’ and ‘moon’. There is considerable diversity at the dialect level if disambiguation is required, and the origin of certain complex expressions remains unclear. In this paper we evaluate etymological proposals made in the past and suggest new solutions for some of those complex expressions. As for the lack of lexical differentiation between ‘sun’ and ‘moon’, it has been recently shown that this particularity may be of significance from the viewpoint of areal linguistics. Therefore we integrate the Ainu data properly within the context of the Circum-Pacific Language Area.

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