Etymograph

English

Pingtung

Pingtung comes from Mandarin 屏東//.

  1. Mandarinmodern屏東//Píngdōng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1953Pingtung

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern屏東//Píngdōng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1953Pingtung

Earliest quotation: 1953, Harold Lavine, Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back: “Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack…”

Today it means

name A county in southern Taiwan.

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

Etymograph / Mandarin 屏東// / Pingtung