Yezo

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  1. 1
    Dated spelling of Ezo.

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hokkaido

Etymology

From Japanese èŠć€· (Ezo). The initial y- (also found in Yedo, Yemishi, etc.) resulted from the merging between え (e) and 𛀁 (ye) into the latter in the 10th century CE.

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