ホッチキス

Japanese

Alternative forms

• ホチキス (hochikisu)

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hotchkiss, after the E. H. Hotchkiss Company of Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S., an early and prominent manufacturer of staplers.

Various Japanese sources^[1][2][3][4] erroneously derive this from the surname of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of a kind of machine gun. However, research by Jim Breen instead derives this from the surname of Eli Hubbell Hotchkiss.^[5]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ホッチキス [hóꜜtchìkìsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][6]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞t̚t͡ɕikʲisɨ]

Noun

ホッチキス • (hotchikisu) 

1. a stapler (device which binds together paper)

Synonyms

• ステープラー (sutēpurā)

Descendants

• Korean: 호치키스 (hochikiseu)

References

1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. “ホッチキス”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
4. “ホッチキス”, in 改訂新版 世界大百科事典 (Kaitei Shinpan Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Revised Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 2007, →ISBN
5. 2017, Jim Breen, “The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss”, retrieved 2018 July 16
6. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN