Etymograph

English

Zengdu

Zengdu comes from Mandarin 曾都.

  1. Mandarinmodern曾都Zēngdū
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2008Zengdu

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern曾都Zēngdū
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2008Zengdu

Earliest quotation: 2008, The Budding of Acrobatics: Acrobatics in the Pre-Qin Dynasty: “Some of them were buried alive with their deceased…”

Today it means

name A district of Suizhou, Hubei, China.

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

Etymograph / Mandarin 曾都 / Zengdu