Kytay
English
editEtymology
editVariant of earlier Kitai (“the Khitan people, their language”), which see.
Proper noun
editKytay
- (historical, obsolete) Synonym of Cathay, as the land of the Khitans.
- 1598, Richard Hakluyt translating John de Plano Carpini as The Voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini vnto the Northeast parts of the world, in the yeere of our Lord, 1246, Ch. 9, page 116: