Etymology

Emishi

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Today it means: An ancient ethnic group of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan. Full definition →

Japanese 蝦夷
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from蝦夷
  2. English todayEmishi

From Japanese 蝦夷 (Emishi, literally “shrimp barbarians”).

Words from the same roots

Japanese蝦夷 all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.