Jeina

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English China, from Persian چینی (čini, “Chinese; porcelain”), compound of چین (čin, “China”) and the suffix ـی (-i), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (čīn, “China”), probably from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [tʲeinʲɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /tʲejinʲæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {jȩyinah}

Derived terms

Proper noun

Jeina

  1. China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949)

References

Welsh

Proper noun

Jeina

  1. (colloquial) soft mutation of Tsieina

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tsieina
radical soft nasal aspirate
Tsieina Jeina unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.