[sumo] Re: How to translate "no"

[Howard Gilbert]

OK, "no" is a possessive in Japanese, meaning it could be translated as 
'of' in a lot of situations. So "Maku" stands for a curtain and "uchi" 
means the inside, and thus Makunouchi means inside (of) the curtain. 
Another example might be the the "no" in Chiyonofuji, which means 'fuji 
of a thousand years'

Makuuchi means the same thing as Makunouchi and the reading comes (I 
believe) from the fact that some Japanese words written in kanji 
sometimes have the "no" omitted but it is implied.

Howard





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