tangut
/ˈtɑŋ.ɡʊt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Their Tibeto-Burman language.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Tangut people, language or script.
Example Sentences
- "In 1227, from his deathbed, as his armies lay siege to the Tangut capital, he ordered every Tangut to be slaughtered. His troops carried out his orders, even though he was dead by the time of the final slaughter. So complete was the extermination that until recently the Tangut were a historical blur virtually erased from history by the Mongols."
- "In the tenth century, livestock breeding was still the basic form of economic activity among the Tanguts. Chinese officials reported to the court: 'The Tanguts live in the sands, pasture livestock, and do not have a permanent place of residence.'⁴"
Etymology
From a Middle Mongol exonym used by the Mongols, which would become the Classical Mongolian ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠤᠳ (tangɣud) that was phonetically transcribed in Ming-era Early Mandarin Chinese as 唐兀_惕 (/*tʰaŋ(ŋ)ut/) in the Chinese edition of the Secret History of the Mongols (《元朝秘史》). The designation ultimately derives from Old Turkic 𐱃𐰭𐰆𐱃 (t¹ŋwt¹) as attested in the 8th-century Bilgä Qaǧan stele. The English word, and similar forms in European languages, derives from Medieval Latin Tangut (*Tangunt in the Leiden manuscript) from the accounts of William of Rubruck compiled in the 1250s. The English form was attested in the writings of Richard Hakluyt who translated parts of William's accounts in the late 16th century.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 𐱃𐰭𐰆𐱃, Tangut
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɑŋ.ɡʊt/
Inflected Forms
Tanguth (alternative, obsolete)
Tongut (alternative, obsolete)
Tanchut (alternative, obsolete)
Tanguts (plural)
more Tangut (comparative)
most Tangut (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
txg
Wiktionary’s coverage of Tangut terms
Frequently Paired Words
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txg
Wiktionary’s coverage of Tangut terms