English
Heungshan
Heungshan comes from Cantonese 香山.
- Cantonesemodern香山hoeng1 saan1
- Englishearliest quotation 1895Heungshan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Cantonesemodern香山hoeng1 saan1
- Englishearliest quotation 1895Heungshan
Earliest quotation: 1895, E. J. Eitel, London: Luzac & Company: “In accordance with the urgent resolutions unamimously passed by…”
Every English word from Cantonese 香山
Today it means
name Former name of Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Cantonese 香山 / Heungshan