| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 16, 2003, 19:38 |
Muke Tever writes: > Incidentally, is there a (pseudo-)Latinate root for referring to Japan(ese), > similar to Sino- for Chinese? My intuition tells me there should be but refuses > to supply the word. > I think I've seen the word "zipangophone" (from Marco Polo's "Zipangu", generally identified with Japan) but this was probably a jocular neologism only.