Etymograph

English

Medog

Medog comes from Tibetan མེ་ཏོག ‘flower, blossom’.

  1. Tibetanmodernམེ་ཏོགme tog‘flower, blossom’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002Medog

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Tibetanmodernམེ་ཏོགme tog‘flower, blossom’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002Medog

Earliest quotation: 2002, Michael McRae, The Siege of Shangri-La: “Their trek took them across the snowbound Gawalung pass…”

Today it means

name A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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

Etymograph / Tibetan མེ་ཏོག / Medog