mɛɣan

Oroqen

Alternative forms

• mëxan

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *miaban, compare Nanai миаван (miawan) and Evenki ме̄ван (mēwan).

Noun

mɛɣan

1. heart

References

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