Kitan
English
Etymology
A reconstruction of the original (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Khitan form of the name. See Khitan.
Proper noun
Kitan
- (historical ethnography) Alternative form of Khitan, in its various senses.
- 1990, Herbert Franke, "The Forest Peoples of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens" in The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Vol. I, p. 400: