English
Mao
Mao comes from Mandarin 毛.
- Mandarinmodern毛Máo
- Englishearliest quotation 1968Mao
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern毛Máo
- Englishearliest quotation 1968Mao
Earliest quotation: 1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude: “As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be…”
Every English word from Mandarin 毛
Another origin of Mao
- tbqmodernMao‘indigenous ethnonym’
- Englishtodaysame form
Another origin of Mao
- AmharicmodernMao‘indigenous ethnonym’
- Englishtodaysame form
Today it means
name A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 毛 / Mao