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Oroqen
Alternative forms
žaan
Etymology
From Proto-Tungusic *ʒuban, cognate with Evenki дя̄н (ʒān) and Manchu ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ (juwan).
Numeral
dʒa꞉n
- ten
References
- Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)