Etymology

sumu

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Mandarin 蘇木 /苏木 ← Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ ← mnc ᠨᡳᡵᡠ
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The story

  1. Proto-Mongolic · derived from*sumun“arrow”
  2. mnc · derived fromᠨᡳᡵᡠ“a large arrow, militia company, district”
  3. Mongolian · derived fromᠰᠤᠮᠤ
  4. Mandarin · borrowed from蘇木 /苏木
  5. English todaysumu

From Mandarin 蘇木 /苏木 (sūmù), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu), from Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru, “a large arrow, militia company, district”). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

Words from the same roots

mncᠨᡳᡵᡠ all →

sum

Proto-Mongolic*sumun all →

sum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.