Long County

English

Etymology 1

Partial calque of Mandarin 隴縣／陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).

Proper noun

Long County

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1956, Tieh-tseng Li, “Notes”, in The Historical Status of Tibet‎^[1], New York: King's Crown Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225:

     Lungchou had its district government at the present-day Lung-hsien in Shensi Province. The Lungchou barrier here indicated must be somewhere north of Ch’ing-shui in the present Kansu Province.]

   • 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures‎^[2], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346:

     “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.

   • 2002, Emma C. Bunker, Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

     Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.

   • 2021, Yan Sun, Many Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [5]:

     The shift of Ze from Long County down to central Baoji in the south presents an example of a polity's relocation from the periphery to the center of this frontier.

Synonyms

• Lung Hsien (Wade–Giles)

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隴縣／陇县 (zh) (Lǒng Xiàn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

Named after Crawford Long.

Proper noun

Long County

1. One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.