English
Pao-t'ou
Pao-t'ou comes from Mandarin 包頭.
- Mandarinmodern包頭Bāotóu
- Englishearliest quotation 1929Pao-t'ou
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern包頭Bāotóu
- Englishearliest quotation 1929Pao-t'ou
Earliest quotation: 1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan: “He told us that we were about a hundred…”
Every English word from Mandarin 包頭
Today it means
name —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 包頭 / Pao-t'ou