Re:Watashiato
by iandanforth on Sunday October 23, 2022 @04:40PM
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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.
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I see you were similarly confused. The word was invented by the author.
Re:Watashiato
by sidedishes on Sunday October 23, 2022 @04:45PM
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I 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.)
Neither 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 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.
Re:Watashiato
by MiguelX413 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:13PM
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Many if not all of the words in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows are unelegantly made up/coined tbh.