irgə

Oroqen

Alternative forms

irge

Etymology

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

Noun

irgə

1. brain

References

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