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kagan

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt

Word form	kagan
Original script	河岸
LWT meaning(s)	the shore
Word meaning	shore along a river
Analyzability	analyzable compound
Gloss	ka-gan river-shore
Age	Modern Japanese [21] (1868–2007)
Lexical stratum	kango
Year	1877
Register	General

Loanword Information

Borrowed status	1. clearly borrowed
Source words	héàn 'river shore' Chinese
Effect	Coexistence
Salience	Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation	Sinicization [21]