A-erh-t'ai

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 阿爾泰／阿尔泰 (Ā'ěrtài) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-êrh³-tʻai⁴.

Proper noun

A-erh-t'ai

1. Alternative form of A'ertai (Altai)
   • 1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"‎^[1], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:

     The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone. […] The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.

   • 1960 April 7, “Communist China's Achievements in Numerical Weather Forecasting”, in 氣象學報‎^[2], volume XXX, number 3, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 April 2022, page 4:

     In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slope may exceed 40 meters in 12 hours.

   • 1961 October 18, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[3], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 90:

     Veteran herdsmen of K'o-k'o-tzu of Teng-t'a commune was famous for his "geographic knowledge; he knows many peaks, wate, roads, and prairies in central A-erh-t'ai (Altai) Mountain region.

   • 1972, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[4], numbers 5081-5104, Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

     You who are going to Peking please remember our words. Chairman Mao's kindness is higher than the A-erh-t'ai Mountain. The Kazakh people wish Chairman Mao a long life!

   • 1973, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[5], numbers 210-231, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 16:

     The A-erh-t'ai Mountains are famous for the production of gold.

   • 1977, John William Schiffeler, The Legendary Creatures of the Shan Hai Ching‎^[6], volume 2, Orient Cultural Service, →OCLC, page 70:

     This mountain is believed to refer to the present-day mountain range of A-erh-t'ai (BTR) or the Altai Mountains that border between the southwestern Mongolian People's Republic and the northern region of the Autonomous Region[...]

   • 1991, Marie A. Lawrence, “A Fossil Myospalax Cranium (Rodentia: Muridae) from Shanxi, China, with Observations on Zokor Relationships”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History‎^[7], number 206, American Museum of Natural History, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 284, column 2:

     The apparent disjunct distribution may be an artifact of no collections made in northernmost Gansu and the A-erh-t’ai shan (Mongolian and Chinese Altay).

Further reading

• A-erh-t'ai at Google Ngram Viewer
• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Sharasume”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1745, column 2: “It is the administrative hq. of the dist. Altai [Chinese Aerhtai or Ashan], by which name the town is sometimes called […]”