Etymograph

English

Wong Nai Chung Gap

Wong Nai Chung Gap comes from Cantonese 黃泥涌.

  1. Cantonesemodern黃泥涌
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1985Wong Nai Chung Gap

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Cantonesemodern黃泥涌
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1985Wong Nai Chung Gap

Earliest quotation: 1985, Martin Booth, Christmas 1941: “Things had not been going well, to put it…”

A compound of 黃泥涌 + gap

Old Norse gap ‘an empty space, chasm’

Middle English gap ‘gap, opening’

English gap

Today it means

name A hill pass in Eastern district, Hong Kong.

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

Etymograph / Cantonese 黃泥涌 / Wong Nai Chung Gap