English
Tumen
Tumen comes from Mandarin 圖們/图们.
- Mandarinmodern圖們/图们Túmén
- Englishearliest quotation 1861Tumen
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Mandarinmodern圖們/图们Túmén
- Englishearliest quotation 1861Tumen
Earliest quotation: 1861, E. G. Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur: “Another tribe, the Kwiara, live on the frontiers of…”
Every English word from Mandarin 圖們/图们
Today it means
name A river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 圖們/图们 / Tumen