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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/oran
Proto-Tungusic
Etymology
Very similar to Proto-Samoyedic *korå (“male, reindeer bull”) and Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *qora (see Chukchi ӄораӈы), however the loss of the initial segment is unexplained.
Alternatively linked by Starostin et al. with Mongolian оронго (orongo, “a kind of antelope”) and Khakas орғы (orğı, “hybrid of moose and maral”) (with their respective cognates).
Noun
*oran
- reindeer
Descendants
- Northern
- Even: ора̇н (orȧn)
- Evenki: орон (oron)
- Negidal: ойон (ojon)
- Oroqen: ɔrɔn
- Central
- Oroch: оро
- Udihe: оро, оло
- South-Eastern:
- Nanai: оро̄н
- Ulch: оро
- South-Western:
- Manchu: ᠣᡵᠣᠨ
ᠪᡠᡥᡠ (oron buhu)
- Manchu: ᠣᡵᠣᠨ
References
- Cincius, V. I. (1977) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov: Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages: Materials for an etymological dictionary] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 24-25