mosir

Ainu

Alternative forms

• mosiri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mò̞ꜛɕíɾ]

Noun

mosir (Kana spelling モシㇼ)

1. country, land
2. island
3. world

Derived terms

• aynumosir (“Hokkaido”)
• kamuymosir (“heaven”)
• samormosir (“Japan; Honshu”)

References

John Batchelor (1905), An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎, Tokyo; London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co.

Maranao

Noun

mosir

1. rifle

References

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎ (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press