tʃa꞉lban

Oroqen

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *čālban. Cognate with Evenki ча̄лбан (çālban), Solon qaalbang, and Even чалбан (calʙan).

Noun

tʃa꞉lban

1. birch (tree)

References

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