Etymograph

English

Shanyin

Shanyin comes from Mandarin 山陰.

  1. Mandarinmodern山陰Shānyīn
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1960Shanyin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern山陰Shānyīn
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1960Shanyin

Earliest quotation: 1960, Tse-tsung, Harvard University Press: “Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was…”

Today it means

name A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.

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

Etymograph / Mandarin 山陰 / Shanyin