Associations to the word «Tungus»
Wiktionary
TUNGUS, noun. Any member of a group of roving Turanian tribes in Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley, who speak Tungusic languages.
TUNGUS, proper noun. (dated) (possibly obsolete) The Evenki language.
Dictionary definition
TUNGUS, noun. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu.
TUNGUS, noun. The Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.