オートバイ

Japanese

Etymology

Clipping of オートバイシクル (ōtobaishikuru), erroneously listed in some monolingual Japanese dictionaries as wasei eigo,[1][2][3][4] but actually borrowed from English autobicycle,[5][6][7][8] an early English term for motorcycle.

First cited to a text from 1918.[5]

Pronunciation

Noun

オートバイ • (ōtobai) 

  1. [from 1918] a motorcycle
    Synonym: 単車 (tansha)
  2. [from 1918] a scooter (motor-scooter)
    Synonyms: 原チャリ (genchari), 原付 (gentsuki)

Descendants
  • → Amis: otofay, tofay
  • → Atayal: tubay
  • → Bunun: utubai
  • → Hakka: 奧多拜／奥多拜
  • → Kanakanabu: 'utupai
  • → Kavalan: utubay
  • → Korean: 오토바이 (otobai)
  • → Min Nan: 歐兜邁／欧兜迈 (ōudōumài)
  • → Paiwan: utubai
  • → Puyuma: utubay
  • → Rukai: utubay
  • → Saisiyat: 'otobay
  • → Taroko: otobay
  • → Tsou: 'otovai
  • → Yami: otobay

References
  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  6. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  7. “オートバイ”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  8. “オートバイ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
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