The mango is much loved wherever it is found, it was first made known to the outside world, it is said, by the Chinese traveller Huang Tsuang who visited India in the 1st century ad, after which cultivation of the mango generally spread eastwards. He used the name an-mo-lo, a phoneticization of the Sanskrit amra. Other names for the fruit in most Indo-European languages derive from the original Tamil man-kay or man-gay.