English
Lung-shan
Lung-shan comes from Mandarin 龍山.
- Mandarinmodern龍山Lóngshān
- Englishearliest quotation 1969Lung-shan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern龍山Lóngshān
- Englishearliest quotation 1969Lung-shan
Earliest quotation: 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China: “Lung-shan culture takes us to the dawn of recorded…”
The story
"Dragon Mountain") Wade-Giles romanization: Lung²-shan¹.
Every English word from Mandarin 龍山
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 龍山 / Lung-shan