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tairiku

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt

Word form	tairiku
Original script	大陸
LWT meaning(s)	the land the mainland
Word meaning	“continent”
Analyzability	analyzable compound
Gloss	tai-riku great-land
Age	Modern Japanese [21] (1868–2007)
Lexical stratum	kango
Year	1873
Register	General
Numeric frequency	19

Loanword Information

Borrowed status	1. clearly borrowed
Comments	In Chinese, attested in Shujing and Erya.
Source words	dàlù 'continent' Chinese
Effect	Coexistence
Salience	Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation	Sinicization [21]