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irgə

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Oroqen

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Alternative forms

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irge

Etymology

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From Proto-Tungusic *irgä (brain, head). Cognate with Evenki иргэ (irgə).

Noun

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irgə

  1. brain

References

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  • Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)