English
Kachin
Kachin comes from Burmese ကချင်.
- Burmesemodernကချင်ka.hkyang
- Englishearliest quotation 1896Kachin
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Burmesemodernကချင်ka.hkyang
- Englishearliest quotation 1896Kachin
Earliest quotation: 1896, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Annual Report (volume 82: “Some of the Yaw Yin people understand Kachin, but…”
Every English word from Burmese ကချင်
Today it means
noun Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Burmese ကချင် / Kachin