"kamuy" meaning in Ainu

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Adjective

IPA: [kàꜛmúj]
Etymology: Likely related to Old Japanese 神 (kamu, “god”). The exact relationship between the two terms is unclear. Modern Japanese 神 (kami) may have derived from kamu + i (Old Japanese emphatic nominal particle), producing *kamui, and then being borrowed into Ainu as kamuy. John Batchelor, however, analyses kamuy as being made up of the root ka (“above”), which is then kamu (“to cover”) and finally, through the addition of nominalising particle y, kamuy (“he who covers or overshadows”). In this case, Japanese 神 (kami) would be, in fact, a borrowing from Ainu. Etymology templates: {{cog|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|神||god|tr=kamu}} 神 (kamu, “god”), {{cog|ja|神|tr=kami}} Japanese 神 (kami), {{cog|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{cog|ain|-}} Ainu, {{m|ain||ka|t=above}} ka (“above”), {{m|ain||kamu|t=to cover}} kamu (“to cover”), {{m|ain||kamuy|t=he who covers or overshadows}} kamuy (“he who covers or overshadows”), {{cog|ja|神|tr=kami}} Japanese 神 (kami) Head templates: {{head|ain|adjective|Kana spelling|カムイ||{{{3}}}|f1sc=Kana|head=|sc=Latn|tr=-}} kamuy (Kana spelling カムイ), {{ain-adj|l|カムイ}} kamuy (Kana spelling カムイ)
  1. an honorific-like title applied to anything great, important, or terrible, not necessarily implying divinity Derived forms: kamuyhumbe (english: orca), kamuycep (english: salmon), kamuymosir (english: heaven), kimunkamuy (english: bear)
    Sense id: en-kamuy-ain-adj-~RzYD3nN

Noun

IPA: [kàꜛmúj]
Etymology: Likely related to Old Japanese 神 (kamu, “god”). The exact relationship between the two terms is unclear. Modern Japanese 神 (kami) may have derived from kamu + i (Old Japanese emphatic nominal particle), producing *kamui, and then being borrowed into Ainu as kamuy. John Batchelor, however, analyses kamuy as being made up of the root ka (“above”), which is then kamu (“to cover”) and finally, through the addition of nominalising particle y, kamuy (“he who covers or overshadows”). In this case, Japanese 神 (kami) would be, in fact, a borrowing from Ainu. Etymology templates: {{cog|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|神||god|tr=kamu}} 神 (kamu, “god”), {{cog|ja|神|tr=kami}} Japanese 神 (kami), {{cog|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{cog|ain|-}} Ainu, {{m|ain||ka|t=above}} ka (“above”), {{m|ain||kamu|t=to cover}} kamu (“to cover”), {{m|ain||kamuy|t=he who covers or overshadows}} kamuy (“he who covers or overshadows”), {{cog|ja|神|tr=kami}} Japanese 神 (kami) Head templates: {{head|ain|noun|Kana spelling|カムイ||{{{3}}}||{{{poss}}}|||||||||||f1sc=Kana|head=|sc=Latn|tr=-}} kamuy (Kana spelling カムイ), {{ain-noun|l|カムイ}} kamuy (Kana spelling カムイ)
  1. a god (deity) Categories (topical): Gods, Religion
    Sense id: en-kamuy-ain-noun--gEcnZfZ Disambiguation of Gods: 9 89 2 Disambiguation of Religion: 6 94 0
  2. (by extension from the god sense) a bear (large mammal of family Ursidae) Tags: broadly Categories (lifeform): Ursids Synonyms: ciramamtep
    Sense id: en-kamuy-ain-noun-Zzo-V23Z Disambiguation of Ursids: 16 7 77 Categories (other): Ainu entries with incorrect language header, Ainu terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ainu entries with incorrect language header: 33 3 63 Disambiguation of Ainu terms with redundant script codes: 32 4 65

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        [
          "honorific",
          "honorific"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[kàꜛmúj]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "John Batchelor",
    "John Batchelor (missionary)"
  ],
  "word": "kamuy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ainu dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.