English
Pu'er
Pu'er comes from Mandarin 普洱.
- Mandarinmodern普洱Pǔ'ěr
- Englishearliest quotation 2007Pu'er
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern普洱Pǔ'ěr
- Englishearliest quotation 2007Pu'er
Earliest quotation: 2007, Earthquake kills three: “An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck…”
The story
As the tea, shortened from Pu'er tea.
Every English word from Mandarin 普洱
Today it means
name A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 普洱 / Pu'er