Where does “Tian” come from?

Tian is a Mandarin Chinese word 田 meaning field or paddy, with roots in Old Chinese where it denoted an enclosed agricultural plot.

Tian (English): simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God

Definitions

  1. simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God

Ancestry of “Tian”, step by step

Tian traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French tian

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtiantian, cooking-pot
2Old Occitantian—

via Chinese Mandarin 田

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese Mandarin田—
Every word from Old Occitan tian →Every word from French tian →