The story
- Siraya · borrowed fromtakau“bamboo forest”
- Hokkien · derived from打狗
- Japanese · derived from高雄
- Mandarin · borrowed from高雄
- English todayKaohsiung
Borrowed from Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 高雄 (Kao¹-hsiung²), from Japanese 高雄 (Takao) (whence also Takao), from Hokkien 打狗 (Tá-káu) (whence also Takau), from Siraya takau (“bamboo forest”). First attested in late 1945.
Words from the same roots
First known use, by meaning
- from 20th c. A former county of Taiwan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.