English
Lake Tien
Lake Tien may come from Mandarin 滇池.
- Mandarinmodern滇池Diān Chíuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1972Lake Tien
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern滇池Diān Chíuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1972Lake Tien
Earliest quotation: 1972, Emma C. Bunker, The Tien Culture and Some Aspects of Its Relationship to the: “The site of Shih-chai-shan, an early Iron Age necropolis,…”
Every English word from Mandarin 滇池
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Etymograph / Mandarin 滇池 / Lake Tien