təməkun

Oroqen

Alternative forms

temekun

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *temexen, compare Evenki тэмэгэн (təməgən), Nanai тэмэн (temen), and Manchu ᡨᡝᠮᡝᠨ (temen).

Noun

təməkun

1. camel

References

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