[sumo] Re: How to translate "no"

[Charles Beauchamp]

--- Howard Gilbert <h.gilbert at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> 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
> 

No means no!

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