Kytay
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant of earlier Kitai (“the Khitan people, their language”), which see.
Proper noun edit
Kytay
- (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: