iriktə

Oroqen

Alternative forms

irikte

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *xīre, compare Evenki ириктэ (iriktə).

Noun

iriktə

1. ant, termite

References

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