『英華字典』에 나타나는 음역 지명 표기 연구‒『米欧回覧実記』와의 비교를 중심으로‒

Abstract

This study comparatively examines the dictionary 『Ekazitten』that is a basic material for language studies and 『Beoukairanzitki』, an official foreign report in the transition era to Japanese original characteristic place notation from traditional Chinese place notation in the early Meiji to investigate how the Japanese notation was affected by that of Chinese. From the results of this study, it is found that there were 27 items of notation fully identical to each other in forms in both literary documents, with a consistency rate of 42.8%. As there were many place notations applicable to European main regions included in both literary documents from which half of place names were found to be identical to each other, it can be said that the place notations in common use at the time were affected to the early Meiji by Chinese place notation. In the mean time, it is found that there were Japanese original notations newly devised in no accordance with the existing notation used in China and that as they appeared as entry words for today's contemporary dictionaries, those notations still affect today's place notations as standard word forms. Eventually, through this study, in notating places, it is found that the Chinese place notation and the Japanese original notation coexisted in the transition era from the Chinese notation centered on Sinology in the Edo period to the Japanese original notation devised for Sino-Japanese sounds owing to the introduction of Western civilization in the early Meiji.