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Yezo

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noun

1.

the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu

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From Japanese èŠć€· (Ezo). The initial y- (also found in Yedo, Yemishi, etc.) resulted from the merging between え (e) and 𛀁 (ye) into the latter in the 10th century CE.

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