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Tun⋅gus

  [toong-gooz]
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–noun, plural -gus⋅es, (especially collectively) -gus.
1. Evenki.
2. any member of a Tungusic-speaking people.
Origin:
1620–30; ≪ Russ tungús, prob. < Tatar, a formation with the Turkic suffix *-guz, used in ethnic names; identity of 1st element obscure
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E·ven·ki   (ĭ-wěng'kē, ĭ-věng'-)   
n.   pl. Evenki or E·ven·kis also Ewenki or E·wen·kis In both senses also called Tungus.

  1. A member of a people inhabiting a large area of eastern Siberia in Russia and northern Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolia) in China.

  2. The Tungusic language of the Evenki.


[Russian, Evenki people, from Evenki ə´wənkī.]
Tun·gus   (tŏŏng-gōōz', tŭn-)   
n.   pl. Tungus or Tun·gus·es
See Evenki.

[Russian, from East Turkic tunguz, wild pig, boar, from Old Turkic tonguz.]
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Tungus

the most numerous and widely scattered of the many small nationalities of northern Siberia (Asian Russia)

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