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This might be translated as 'after me' (watashi (私) I, ato (後) later) but I can't find any actual etymology.
by iandanforth 4y ago
This might be translated as 'after me' (watashi (私) I, ato (後) later) but I can't find any actual etymology.
- TeeTwoLee 4y agoI see you were similarly confused. The word was invented by the author.
- sidedishes 4y agoI believe they all come from the single book, Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, referenced in the blog. All the terms in there are new words! (The breakdown you have is what I would've guessed too, though.)
- Cyberdog 4y agoNeither can I; there's no "わたしあと" in Jisho or d.goo. Just searching the net returns this page: https://www.kankou-gifu.jp/spot/detail_6769.html https://www.kankou-gifu.jp/spot/detail_6769.html where it's written as 渡し跡, which would translate to something closer to "the ruins of a crossing" and seems to be used literally for a marker designating the former location of a river crossing ferry. Maybe this isn't Japanese, or maybe it was made up by a non-Japanese speaker who searched for the words "me" and "after" in an E-to-J dictionary and then mashed them together. I'm leaning towards the latter.
- MiguelX413 4y agoMany if not all of the words in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows are unelegantly made up/coined tbh.
- innocenat 4y agoLikely 跡 not 後. The former can mean track mark as in the mark you have left on the society.