ʃirgi

Oroqen

Alternative forms

širgi

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *sire, compare Evenki сиругӣ (sirugī).

Noun

ʃirgi

1. 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)