Amoy
/əˈmɔɪ/ · name
Meaning
- Former name of Xiamen: a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
- The Amoy dialect of the Hokkien language.
- The Hokkien language.
Etymology / origin
From the Postal Romanization of Hokkien 廈門 /厦门 (Ēe-mûi), specifically the Zhangzhou Hokkien dialect. Compare Spanish Emuy.
- Emuy(Spanish)→
- -(nan-zha)→
- 廈門(nan-hbl)→
- -(zh-postal)→
- Amoy (English)
- Relations: bor, bor, bor, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- Amoy(Spanish) (bor)
- Emuy(Spanish) (cog)
- Amoy(Tagalog) (bor)
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