The Japanese Contributions to the English Language: An Historical DictionaryOtto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996 - 257 pages |
Contents
Historical Semantic Analysis of the Data | 26 |
Phonological and Grammatical Analysis of the Data | 73 |
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Loanwords | 91 |
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abbr Ainu ambig American Arabic Arts Lit Asian Birds Buddhism called calque cent century Chin China Chinese Cloth color comb corpus crab cultivated culture dance denoting Dictionary disease edible Edo period English entries etymology evergreen Farrington fatsia fish flower Food genus German Honshu Household Industry Japan Japanese Japlish japonica judo kabuki kamikaze kana karate katana kimono Korean lacquer language loan extension loanwords Loose transl MAKIMONO martial arts MChin Meiji Nara period native nouns ¨ pl ¨/-s pl ODNW orig originally ornamental Painting paper Partial transl persimmon pine plant porcelain poss Pottery prob Reborr reborrowed recorded rice Ryukyuan s/-¨ pl samurai sect semantic Semi-calque Shinto shogun shrub Sociol sumo term Tokyo translation transliterated tree tsuba variety varnish wakizashi ware Western words World War II Zool