ʃirgi

Oroqen

Alternative forms

širgi

Etymology

Cognate with Evenki сиругӣ (sirugī).

Noun

ʃirgi

sand

See also

tʊkala (“soil, earth, dirt”)
tɔ꞉rag (“dust”)
tilbaka (“mud”)
tur (“land, earth”)

References

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

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