{"id":22472,"date":"2022-09-29T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22472"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:28:04","slug":"sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22472","title":{"rendered":"Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for fish and other seafood seem to pop up quite often in the Japanese lessons on Duolingo. One such word is <strong>\u9bad<\/strong> (sake), which means salmon, specifically <strong>chum salmon<\/strong> (<em>Oncorhynchus keta<\/em>), a species of salmon that lives in the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic. It is also known as  the <strong>dog salmon<\/strong>, <strong>Siberian salmon<\/strong>, <strong>keta salmon<\/strong>, or <strong>silverbrite salmon<\/strong> in North America [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chum_salmon\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usfwshq\/6088542755\/in\/photolist-ah2nD6-2mHjXuq-2kLTJMt-aZJoVn-2mHhCAw-hTEgux-2kEhTNb-2cZHjcr-Cf4xmc-hqrV4D-2mRzat3-63e1Jt-2mHgtwz-aY14J4-2kdGKDc-2kdrmSj-4aPaVS-dwNEUR-2kepD1a-2kePtRf-52J3SW-2kgdNxR-BMUwDH-2kdntok-5MMurQ-AnCZw8-63igGC-ZyeV21-Mu1sg6-5CyUJR-21DHqYW-8DDmM3-2a5VKw3-21KLuxC-2bTHHmE-21KLtW7-2kdGooR-DGVu8j-2cM7633-2mv3TL2-i6KsQW-2br96Re-21EHvhz-63cTiT-ZoewQZ-EtbFbA-5F1vJS-2kekoqH-2bLXENs-5EWaUg\" title=\"chum salmon leaping\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6074\/6088542755_f3951e9381_z.jpg\" alt=\"chum salmon leaping\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>\u9bad<\/strong> (sake), which is also written <strong>\u9b8f<\/strong>, <strong>\u30b5\u30b1<\/strong> or <strong>\u3055\u3051<\/strong>, comes from the Ainu word <strong>\u30b5\u31f0\u30a4\u30d9<\/strong> (sak ibe &#8211; salmon), which literally means \u201csummer eat\u201d, as salmon as usually caught and eaten in the summer [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E9%AE%8F#Japanese\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>chum<\/strong> of <strong>chum salmon<\/strong> comes from the Chinook Jargon word <strong>tzum<\/strong> (spotted, marked). The <strong>keta<\/strong> of <strong>keta salmon \/ Oncorhynchus keta<\/strong> comes from the Russian word <strong>\u043a\u0435\u0442\u0430<\/strong> (keta &#8211; chum\/Siberian salmon), from the Nanai word <strong>\u043a\u0435\u0442\u0430<\/strong> (keta &#8211; fish) [<a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u9bad<\/strong> [s\u00e1\ua71ck\u00e8] should not be confused with <strong>\u9152<\/strong> [s\u00e0k\u00e9] (alcohol, sake). In the former the first syllable has a high pitch and the second a low pitch, while in the latter, the first syllable has low pitch and the second a high pitch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E9%85%92#Japanese\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other Japanese words borrowed from Ainu include [<a href=\"https:\/\/japanese.stackexchange.com\/questions\/1540\/are-there-any-common-japanese-words-which-were-borrowed-from-ainu-or-other-indig\">source<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u30b3\u30bf\u30f3 \/ \u53e4\u6f6d (kotan) = village<\/li>\n<li>\u30c8\u30ca\u30ab\u30a4 \/ \u99b4\u9e7f (tonakai) = reindeer<\/li>\n<li>\u30e9\u30c3\u30b3 \/ \u6d77\u737a (rakko) = sea otter<\/li>\n<li>\u30eb\u30a4\u30d9 (ruibe) = salmon, saffron cod, etc. cut into thin slices while frozen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for fish and other seafood seem to pop up quite often in the Japanese lessons on Duolingo. One such word is \u9bad (sake), which means salmon, specifically chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), a species of salmon that lives in the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic. It is also known as the dog salmon, Siberian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,104,107,129,10,233,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ainu-","category-english","category-etymology","category-japanese","category-language","category-nanai-","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22475,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions\/22475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}