tɔ꞉rag
Oroqen
Alternative forms
toorag
Etymology
From Mongolian тоос (toos, “dust”). Compare other Tungusic languages: Nanai бурэхи (burexi), Manchu ᠪᡠᡵᠠᡴᡳ (buraki), Evenki на̄мнэ (nāmnə).
Noun
tɔ꞉rag
- dust
See also
- ʃirgi (“sand”)
- tʊkala (“soil, earth, dirt”)
- tilbaka (“mud”)
- tur (“land, earth”)
References
- Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)