English
Kuei-yang
Kuei-yang comes from Mandarin 貴陽.
- Mandarinmodern貴陽Guìyáng
- Englishearliest quotation 1903Kuei-yang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern貴陽Guìyáng
- Englishearliest quotation 1903Kuei-yang
Earliest quotation: 1903, F. Howard Taylor, These Forty Years: “The sun was shining on the fair plain, which…”
The story
Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-yang².
Every English word from Mandarin 貴陽
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 貴陽 / Kuei-yang