Etymograph

English

Ma Tau Chung

Ma Tau Chung comes from Cantonese 馬頭涌//.

  1. Cantonesemodern馬頭涌//maa⁵ tau⁴ cung¹
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1965Ma Tau Chung

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Cantonesemodern馬頭涌//maa⁵ tau⁴ cung¹
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1965Ma Tau Chung

Earliest quotation: 1965, Gwenneth Stokes, The Last Days of the Sung: “At last Ti Cheng and Ti Ping and their…”

Today it means

name An area of Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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

Etymograph / Cantonese 馬頭涌// / Ma Tau Chung