Etymology

mongol

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Today it means: A member of an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and various autonomous territories throughout China, tracing their unified identity back to the 13th-century imperial conquests of Genghis Khan. Full definition →

cmg ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ← Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ
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The story

  1. Middle Mongol · derived fromᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ
  2. cmg · borrowed fromᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
  3. English todayMongol

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ (mongqol). The sense of person with Down syndrome stems from the observation that individuals with this condition frequently exhibit a prominent epicanthic fold, a feature commonly observed among individuals of East Asian ancestry.

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