ᠠᠮᠠᠨ

Middle Mongol

Alternative scripts

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *aman.

Noun

ᠠᠮᠠᠨ (ʾʾmʾn /aman/)

  1. mouth

Descendants

  • Central Mongolic:
    • Classical Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠠ (ama)
    • Written Oirat: ᠠᡏᠠ (ama), ᠠᡏᠠᠨ (aman)
  • Daur: aman

Further reading

  • D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 296
  • Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab[1] (in Russian), page 99
  • Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 6