Noto Peninsula
| Noto Peninsula | ||
 Landsat image of the Noto Peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 136 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Waters 1 | Japanese sea | |
The Noto Peninsula ( Japanese 能 登 半島 Noto-hantō ) is a peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshū .
etymology
The Chinese characters 能 登 have no meaningful meaning here, but were selected afterwards to write the word Noto . Its meaning, in turn, is uncertain.
The prevailing opinion is that it comes from nuto ( 沼 辺 ) for "swamp area" and referred to the area around Ōchigata ( 邑 知 潟 ), a deeply cut lagoon near Hakui , which covered almost 8 km² before the land reclamation measures and its surroundings originally had a swamp character.
After disagree Noto was the Ainu -term not for "nose" or "Cape" borrowed, was making an allusion to the character as a peninsula.
geography
Noto is north of Kanazawa and extends into the Sea of Japan . Cities on the peninsula include Wajima , Suzu , Nanao, and Hakui .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 邑 知 潟 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 11, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b 地名 . City of Nanao, archived from the original on September 16, 2004 ; Retrieved March 11, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ Alexander Vovin: 萬葉集と風土記に見られる不思議な言葉と上代日本列島に於けるアイヌ語の分布/ Strange Words in the Man'yōshū and the Fudoki and the distribution of the Ainu Language in the Japanese Islands in Prehistory ( = 日文 研 フ ォ ー ラ ム . No. 212 ). March 12, 2009, p. 5-6 ( online ). Online ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
