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Hokkaido native: Var
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aino
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Aino is a female given name used in Finland and Estonia . The name Aino, meaning "the only one" in Finnish , was invented by Elias Lönnrot , who composed the Kalevala . In this epic poem, Aino (mythology) is a beautiful girl who drowns herself rather than ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ainu \Ai"nu\, n. [Said to be the native name for man.] One of a peculiar race found primarily in Hokkaido, in the northern part of the empire of Japan, the Kurile Islands, and nearby. They are believed to be the native inhabitants of the Japanese islands. ...
Usage examples of aino.
For some distance, however, it runs placidly along by the sea-shore, on which big, blue, foam-crested rollers were disporting themselves noisily, and passes through several Aino hamlets, and the Aino village of Abuta, with sixty houses, rather a prosperous-looking place, where the cultivation was considerably more careful, and the people possessed a number of horses.
The slopes of this hill are covered with the Aconitum Japonicum, of which the Ainos make their arrow poison.