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Is there a term that means that something isn't _gairaigo_ , words recently
derived from (predominantly European) foreign languages?

For example, I'd like to say that 踊り is a non- _gairaigo_ word, which could be
_kango_ or _wago_ (also known as _yamato kotoba_ ), as opposed to the
_gairaigo_ word ダンス.
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loanwords terminology
Is there an opposite of gairaigo, covering both kango and wago?
Without knowing in what situation you would like to use the word, I will give
a few suggestions. I think that the top three are all pretty serviceable.

日本の言葉 －OK

日本語 －OK

普通の日本語 - OK, not as good as the one's above

外来語じゃない言葉 －OK

固有語 －OK, but not so common

在来語 －pretty obscure, but if it's for a thesis it's OK

Check [this site](http://www.hantaigo.com) out.
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I think a natural/obvious choice for "non- _gairaigo_ " would be just
literally 非外来語. Of course it covers both _kango_ and _wago_ , as these aren't
_gairaigo_.

The term is being used, for example in [this draft paper title
(PDF)](https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/event/specialists/project-
meeting/files/JCLWorkshop_no4_papers/JCLWorkshop_No4_35.pdf)

> 現代日本語書き言葉における非外来語のカタカナ表記事情  
>  Frequency of Katakana Representation for Japanese Non-loan Words as
> Observed in the BCCWJ Corpus
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