yəyin

Oroqen

Alternative forms

yeyin

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *xegün, cognate with Evenki егин (jegin), Even уюн (ujun) and Manchu ᡠᠶᡠᠨ (uyun).

Numeral

yəyin

1. nine

References

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