ᠰᡝᠵᡝᠨ

Manchu

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *tergen (“cart”), compare Buryat тэргэн (tergen).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ᠰᡝᠵᡝᠨ • (sejen)

  1. cart; chariot
  2. (by extension) any land wheeled vehicle

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, page 31
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