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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The land of the Ainu people, historically defined as northern Honshu, Hokkaido, and southern part of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and the southernmost tip of Kamchatka.

Etymology

From Ainu + -land. Also a calque of Ainu アィヌモシㇼ.

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