Talk:蝦夷

The spelling
See https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nihongi:_Chronicles_of_Japan_from_the_Earliest_Times_to_A.D._697/Book_III#cite_note-77, where Aston describes Emishi as also being used to refer to other barbarians. Perhaps the general spelling was partially phono-semantic and semantic, with 蝦 being both phonetic (used to represent ebi or emi; but the shrimp could also be referencing to the barbarians) and 夷 is a semantic element, hence the shift to Ebisu. Chuterix (talk) 00:22, 2 January 2024 (UTC)


 * In addition, the Kojiki-den says this (quoted from NKD):
 * "" Chuterix (talk) 00:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)