Is "豪斯多拉利" an ateji way to write "Australia"?


Several years ago I invested some time and energy digging up more ways to
write "Australia" in Japanese than I ever expected would exist:

  * オーストラリア is the usual spelling these days
  * 濠太剌利 is a rare old ateji I believe
  * 濠洲 was a shorter ateji before the spelling reform
  * 豪州 is the previous after the spelling reform
  * 濠 and 豪 are the pre- and post- spelling reform variants used in compounds

But just now I came across one I hadn't seen before:

> 豪斯多拉利

Is this latest one also valid? How does it fit in with the others? Older,
younger? Derived from Chinese or invented in Japan? Obsolete, archaic, or
still in use?

And is it ateji or some other phenomenon?




> Interestingly I can find plenty of places listing it as a name for Australia
> but none mentioning its origin. I'd assume ateji but who knows... you may
> want to change the wording of the main question, though. And just to add to
> your search, this site lists 9 different ways to write Australia.

those 9 ateji that i listed on my blog are those that had been used in Japan;
publications published in Japan.

but on the other hand, those that could be understood/used by the majority of
the people living in present day Japan would only be two, i guess. 豪州 and its
abbreviation 豪.

most of the ateji i listed, can be found on this dictionary " 宛字外来語辞典" ateji
gairaigo jiten, published from 柏書房, kashiwa shobou: which has references for
each usage, mainly from Meiji era.

as far as i know, this dictionary is the best of its kind.

there are lists on the web that include those that are used/found only in
China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Korea.




> Interestingly I can find plenty of places listing it as a name for Australia
> but none mentioning its origin. I'd assume ateji but who knows... you may
> want to change the wording of the main question, though. And just to add to
> your search, this site lists 9 different ways to write Australia.

those 9 ateji that i listed on my blog are those that had been used in Japan;
publications published in Japan.

but on the other hand, those that could be understood/used by the majority of
the people living in present day Japan would only be two, i guess. 豪州 and its
abbreviation 豪.

most of the ateji i listed, can be found on this dictionary " 宛字外来語辞典" ateji
gairaigo jiten, published from 柏書房, kashiwa shobou: which has references for
each usage, mainly from Meiji era.

as far as i know, this dictionary is the best of its kind.

there are lists on the web that include those that are used/found only in
China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Korea.

