Etymograph

English

Tumen

Tumen comes from Mandarin 圖們/图们.

  1. Mandarinmodern圖們/图们Túmén
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1861Tumen

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern圖們/图们Túmén
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1861Tumen

Earliest quotation: 1861, E. G. Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur: “Another tribe, the Kwiara, live on the frontiers of…”

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