kamuy

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, similar to the Japanese kami.

Translations

 * Ainu: カムイ
 * Japanese:

Etymology
Likely related to 🇨🇬. The exact relationship between the two terms is unclear. Modern 🇨🇬 may have derived from kamu + i (🇨🇬 emphatic nominal particle), producing *kamui, and then being borrowed into 🇨🇬 as kamuy.

, however, analyses kamuy as being made up of the root, which is then and finally, through the addition of nominalising particle y,. In this case, 🇨🇬 would be, in fact, a borrowing from Ainu.

Noun

 * 1) a god deity
 * 2)  a bear large mammal of family Ursidae
 * 1)  a bear large mammal of family Ursidae

Adjective

 * 1) an honorific-like title applied to anything great, important, or terrible, not necessarily implying divinity