English
O-chou
O-chou comes from Mandarin 鄂州.
- Mandarinmodern鄂州Èzhōu
- Englishearliest quotation 1962O-chou
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern鄂州Èzhōu
- Englishearliest quotation 1962O-chou
Earliest quotation: 1962, Denis Twitchett, Stanford University Press: “Pʻei Yen-ling settled at O-chou on the middle Yangtze,…”
Every English word from Mandarin 鄂州
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 鄂州 / O-chou