English
Lenghu
Lenghu comes from Mandarin 冷湖.
- Mandarinmodern冷湖Lěnghú
- Englishearliest quotation 1993Lenghu
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern冷湖Lěnghú
- Englishearliest quotation 1993Lenghu
Earliest quotation: 1993, Miao Wang, Buried Cities and Shifting Sands — Onward to Dunhuang: “At Niubiziliang we returned to the embrace of the…”
Every English word from Mandarin 冷湖
Today it means
name A town in Mangnai, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 冷湖 / Lenghu