ʊlgɛn

Oroqen

Alternative forms

• ülgën

Etymology

Cognate with Orok орге (orge) and Manchu ᡠᠯᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ (ulgiyan).

Noun

ʊlgɛn

1. pig, swine

Derived terms

• adirga ʊlgɛn (“boar”)
• gək ʊlgɛn (“sow”)

References

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