ʃiwun

Oroqen

Alternative forms

šiwun

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *sigūn, cognate with Manchu ᡧᡠᠨ (šun) and Evenki сигӯн (sigūn).

Noun

ʃiwun

1. sun

References

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