Kiamusze
English
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 佳木斯 (Jiāmùsī), from before the modern palatalization of /k/.
Proper noun
Kiamusze
- Dated form of Jiamusi.
- 1953, Frank Moraes, “"The Land Is Ours"”, in Report on Mao's China, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 56:
- China's first two collective farms were reported in the Communist press in the summer of 1952. One is said to be near Kiamusze in Sungkiang province in northeastern Manchuria; the other, near Tihwa in Sinkiang province.
- 1976, Jacques Guillermaz, translated by Anne Destenay, The Chinese Communist Party in Power, 1949-1976, New York: Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 431:
- Fighting also occurred at Kunming in Yunnan at the end of May and the beginning of June, at Changsha in Hunan, where several dozen people were reported killed on June 8, in the provinces of the Northeast and particularly at Changchun and Kiamusze.
References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kiamusze or Chia-mu-ssu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 941, column 3
- “Chia-mu-ssu or Kia·mu·sze”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152, column 2
Further reading
- “Kiamusze”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Kiamusze”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Kiamusze” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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