オートバイ
Japanese
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Etymology
[edit]Clipping of オートバイシクル (ōtobaishikuru), erroneously listed in some monolingual Japanese dictionaries as wasei eigo,[1][2][3][4] but actually borrowed from English autobicycle,[5][6][7][8] an early English term for motorcycle. See also autobike.
First cited to a text from 1918.[5]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- [from 1918] a motorcycle
- Synonym: 単車 (tansha)
- [from 1918] a scooter (motor-scooter)
Descendants
[edit]- → Amis: otofay, tofay
- → Atayal: tubay
- → Bunun: utubai
- → Kanakanabu: 'utupai
- → Kavalan: utubay
- → Korean: 오토바이 (otobai)
- → Marshallese: otobai
- → Paiwan: utubai
- → Puyuma: utubay
- → Rukai: utubay
- → Saisiyat: 'otobay
- → Taiwanese Hakka: 奧多拜／奥多拜
- → Taiwanese Hokkien: 歐兜邁／欧兜迈 (o͘-tó͘-bái)
- → Taroko: otobay
- → Tsou: 'otovai
- → Yami: otobay
References
[edit]- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ “オートバイ”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- ^ “オートバイ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984