Tungus
Americannoun
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a member of a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
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Also called: Evenki. the language of this people, belonging to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic family
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Etymology
Origin of Tungus
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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It is their carefully detailed attempt to account for the incredible crash that rocked the Tungus region of Siberia over half a century ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is a Tungus without other Tungus?—I leave you, but you will not forget me!—Good-bye!—May your herds increase!
From Tales by Polish Authors by Various
An elderly Tungus, in attendance on the shaman, was drying a drum at the fire meanwhile.
From Tales by Polish Authors by Various
Reasons have already been advanced for supposing that the Chukchi were a Tungus people who came originally from the Amur basin.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
At this column, which stands in the middle of a small meadow near the water, the nomad Tungus assemble annually from the neighbouring mountains.
From Tales by Polish Authors by Various
We must hunt; that is what the Ostjaks and Tunguses do.
From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget
The account agrees generally with what we are told of the original Shamanism of the Tunguses, which recognizes a Supreme Power over all, and a small number of potent spirits called Ongot.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
Here the voyagers landed to get information about the fairway, but could not enter into communication with the natives, because they were Tunguses.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Few of the Tunguses or Lamutkis own many deer.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
In Central India the sun and moon are worshipped by many tribes, as the Khonds, Korkús, Tunguses, and Buraets.
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
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