Etymograph

English

Kinabatangan

Kinabatangan comes from Malay Kinabatangan.

  1. MalaymodernKinabatangan
  2. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. MalaymodernKinabatangan
  2. Englishtodaysame form

The story

Perhaps a corruption of "Cina batangan", which means a Chinese estuary.

Today it means

name A town and capital of Kinabatangan Diatrict, Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Malay Kinabatangan / Kinabatangan