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Tungus
[ toong-gooz ]
noun
, plural Tun·gus·es, (especially collectively) Tun·gus.
- any member of a Tungusic-speaking people.
Tungus
/ ˈtʊŋɡʊs /
noun
- -guses-gus a member of a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
- Also calledEvenki the language of this people, belonging to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic family
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Tungus1
1620–30; ≪ Russian tungús, probably < Tatar, a formation with the Turkic suffix *-guz, used in ethnic names; identity of 1st element obscure
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Example Sentences
He was a stout man of possibly fifty years of age, unlike a Tungus, and dressed like a Yakut, with a silver Yakut belt.
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Yet none of this was accompanied by the gaiety and animation which usually prevails among the Tungus on such occasions.
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The alien rulers were first the Mongols, and later the Tungus Manchus.
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Sometimes a wizard expects no fee unless he is successful, as among the Tungus, Yakut and Buryats.
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Daur is, in fact, the name applied by the Buryats to all the Tungus peoples of the Amur basin.
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