tʊkʃakɪ

Oroqen

Alternative forms

• tükšakï

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *tuksakī (“hare”), derived from Proto-Tungusic *tuksa- (“to run”). Cognate with Solon tulcaxi, Evenki [script needed] (tuksakī), and Negidal [script needed] (tuksaki).

Noun

tʊkʃakɪ

1. rabbit

References

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