taikun

These treaties were all signed by the shogun (often called by foreigners tycoon (taikun), based on one of his titles, and incorrectly regarded by them as the “secular emperor”).

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We may now turn to the sheer chance convergences, where folk etymology (contamination) may have worked in part: lampons (if a verb form), babouin (what relation to babiller?), Japanese taikun, Chinese tai fung, Arabic semūm, the Algonquian original of raccoon.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 4 1974