海豚 in Japanese

IPA: [iɾɯ̟ᵝka̠] Forms: 海豚 [canonical] (ruby: 海豚(いるか)), 海豚 [canonical] (ruby: 海豚(イルカ)), iruka [romanization] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE with the phonetic spelling 入鹿魚. Further etymology Uncertain. One of the possible native-Japanese theories is that this was originally a compound of Old Japanese elements 魚 (iwo, “fish”) + 食 (uka, “food, something used as food”), with the following sound shifts. :/iwo uka/ → /iru uka/ → /iruka/ Another possibility is that it was a borrowing from Ainu. Compare Sakhalin Ainu リク (riku), イリク (iriku), or Kuril Ainu リカ (rika, “whale”). Given the unlikely sound shift required for the Old Japanese derivation and the lack of cognates in the Ryukyuan languages (see Proto-Ryukyuan *peto), an origin from Ainu seems more likely. The spelling 海豚, which literally means “sea pig”, is an orthographic borrowing from Chinese. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{C.E.|nodots=1}} CE, {{CE}} CE, {{lang|ja|入鹿魚}} 入鹿魚, {{unc|ja}} Uncertain, {{m+|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{compound|ja|魚|食|t1=fish|t2=food, something used as food|tr1=iwo|tr2=uka}} 魚 (iwo, “fish”) + 食 (uka, “food, something used as food”), {{bor|ja|ain|-}} Ainu, {{cog|ain|リク|tr=riku}} Ainu リク (riku), {{m|ain|イリク|tr=iriku}} イリク (iriku), {{cog|ain|リカ||whale|tr=rika}} Ainu リカ (rika, “whale”), {{noncog|jpx-ryu-pro|*peto}} Proto-Ryukyuan *peto, {{lang|ja|海豚}} 海豚, {{obor|ja|zh|-|nocap=1}} orthographic borrowing from Chinese Head templates: {{ja-noun|いるか|イルカ}} 海豚(いるか) or 海豚(イルカ) • (iruka)

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"海豚" meaning in Japanese

Noun

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