Hokkaido (an island and prefecture in northern Japan)
eş: Hokkaido
köken: Borrowed from Japanese 北(ほっ)海(かい)道(どう) (Hokkaidō, literally “North Sea Circuit”), from Middle Chinese 北 (pok, “north”) + 海 (xoj^X, “sea”) + 道 (daw^X, “Circuit”, a province-like administrative unit from Tang dynasty China).
Hokkaido (an island and prefecture in northern Japan)
köken: Borrowed from Japanese 北(ほっ)海(かい)道(どう) (Hokkaidō, literally “North Sea Circuit”), from Middle Chinese 北 (pok, “north”) + 海 (xoj^X, “sea”) + 道 (daw^X, “Circuit”, a province-like administrative unit from Tang dynasty China).
köken: Etymology tree Japanese 蝦夷 Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin Esō̆nia From Japanese 蝦夷 + Latin -ia.
From 北海 (hokkai, “northern sea”) + 道 (-dō, “circuit”). Coined in 1869; see 北海道 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ʲᵃ Before that, the region was known as 蝦夷地 (Ezochi, literally “land of the northern barbarians”).