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Oroqen
irge
Etymology
From Proto-Tungusic *irgä (“brain, head”). Cognate with Evenki иргэ (irgə).
Noun
irgə
- brain
References
- Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)