Kitai

kitai English Etymology From en la Kitai,Beazley, C. Raymond, ed. The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis as Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598... London: Hakluyt Society, 1904. from en zkt - 50px or 50px, Khitai(n),Omniglot. probably via en ug خىتاي.Sinor, D. (1998) "The Kitan and the Kara Kitay" in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, Pt. I, UNESCO, page 241. Cognate with en Cathay and ru Кита́й. Proper noun en historical _ ethnography en Khitan, in its various senses. 1913, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, page 738: ḲARA KHITĀI (or ḲARĀ KHIṬĀI), the usual name since the vith A.H. (xiith A.D.) century in Muḥammadan sources for the Kitai people, mentioned by the Chinese from the eighth century A. D. onwards, who were probably Tunguz (according to another view Mongol)... From the beginning of the tenth century the Kitai carried on a campaign of conquest, conquered the northern part of China and founded a dynasty which as a Chinese ruling house was called Liao (916). Derived terms en Kytay References Latin Etymology From Giovanni da Pian del Carpine's transcriptionBeazley, C. Raymond, ed. The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis as Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598... London: Hakluyt Society, 1904. of la zkt Khita(n,Omniglot. probably via la ug خىتاي.Sinor, D. (1998) "The Kitan and the Kara Kitay" in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, Pt. I, UNESCO, page 241. Proper noun la proper noun la historical _ ethnography The Khitans: a former nomadic people of central Asia. 1246, John de Plano Carpini, The Voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini vnto the Northeast parts of the world, in the yeere of our Lord, 1246, Ch. 5, page 54: la Naymani & Kara Kitai, id est, nigri Kitai, ex adverso in quandam vallem strictam inter montes duos, per quam nos euntes ad imperatorem eorum transiuimus, similiter conueniunt: & commissum est praelium, in quo Naymani & Kara Kitai a Mongallis sunt deuicti, & maior pars eorum occisa: & alii qui euadere non potuerunt in seruitutem redacti sunt. The Naimani also, and the people called Karakitay [that is, the black Kitay] assembled and banded themselues at a certaine straight valley, where, after a battell foughten they were vanquished by the Mongals. And being thus vanquished they were, the greater part of them, slaine; and others, which could not escape, were carried into captiuitie. References Veps Etymology Borrowed from vep ru Кита́й, from vep orv Китаи. Proper noun Kitain Kitaid China Inflection sg Kitai vep Countries in Asia