Talk:モシㇼ

Is this the same word as モシリ? Batchelor 1926 An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary says this:


 * Moshir’
 * モシル
 * Moshiri
 * モシリ
 * 国、世界. 「モシリ」ハ文草ニ於テ、屡「モシル」トナル. 例セバ、モシルホッパ、死ス. n. A country. The world. Moshiri often becomes moshir’ in composition. As:-Moshir’hoppa, "to die."

(etc. I have rendered 国 and 屡 in simplified characters; Batchelor uses traditional ones.)

On the assumption that they are (or in 1926 were) alternative versions of the same word, I have changed モシリ from a redirect to an entry including モシㇼ as an alternative spelling. Cnilep (talk) 02:59, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Derivations
, I removed the following two:


 * (Sakhalin Ainu)
 * (Sakhalin Ainu)

I cannot confirm these in Ainu sources. Do you have any references that include these, with these specific senses?

Separately, the glosses may be a bit off. The term, attested in Batchelor's 1905 dictionary as here (leftmost column, third entry down), is the transitive form of , as indicated by the transitivizing suffix. Yanke mosir thus parses basically as "country where you pull up / haul a boat out".

Meanwhile, is apparently simply "inland, the interior" (Batchelor entry here), as a compound of  +. Yaun mosir would thus be "inland country".

Looking forward to any references you can point me to. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 23:55, 3 February 2022 (UTC)