Etymology

Yuezhi

Yue·zhi
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Today it means: An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire. Full definition →

Mandarin 月氏
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The story

  1. Mandarin · derived from月氏
  2. English todayYuezhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Clan”) or 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.