ɪmana
Oroqen
Alternative forms
ïmana
Etymology
From Proto-Tungusic *xịma-nsa (“snow”), cognate with Nanai симана, Evenki иманна (imanna), and Manchu ᠨᡳᠮᠠᠩᡤᡳ (nimanggi).
Noun
ɪmana
- snow
References
- Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)