Tungusn.adj.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. vii. 527 The people..signified.. that they were called Tingoesi, and that their dwelling was vpon the banke of the great Riuer Ieniscè.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. x. 543 These Tingusses report, that there is another huge Riuer.

1698 tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 48 The Tongueses..have of late years been conquered by the Victorious Arms of the Czars of Muscovy, unto whom they pay a yearly Tribute.

1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. iii. 225 The Tongusy, so called from the name of the river, who live along its banks, are the posterity of the ancient inhabitants of Siberia.

1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. iii. 229 When a Tonguse kills an elk or deer, he never moves from the place, till he has eat it up.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 98 That the Tunguses originally composed one people with the Mandshee, is apparent not only from the resemblance of features..but also chiefly from the agreement of their languages.

1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 459/2 The whole region..has been abandoned to the Toonguses, who get their subsistence by the chace.

1882 A. H. Keane Asia 478 Conterminous on the north with the Buriats are the Tunguses.

1914 M. A. Czaplicka Aboriginal Siberia 52 The Nomadic Tungus are cattle-breeders.

1931 M. Burr Bolshevik Siberia 154 When a Tungus hits off the spoor of one of these grand beasts.

1974 J. R. Baker Race x. 174 The Tungus and Kalmuks (Tungid subrace of Mongolids) are said to be devoid of axillary smell.

1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. xxiii. 571 The Tunguse is a dialect of the Mantchou.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 1/2 An exuberance..of verbal forms, which in Osmanli, Finnish, Magyar, Tungas, and Mordvinian may be said to run riot.

1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 335 The Tungus languages are bifurcated into two groups... Northern Tungus..= Evenki... Southern Tungus.

1698 tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 50 If five or six of these Tonguese Families happen to live near one another..they maintain betwixt them a Shaman, which signifies as much as Sorcerer or Priest.

1882 A. H. Keane Asia 479 The Tungus race.

1914 M. A. Czaplicka Aborig. Siberia 52 The Tungus clan is not an indivisible whole.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) x. 429 The Manchu, the Mongols, and the still earlier Tungus conquerors of China lost their own cultures there.

1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. viii. 177 The area of the simple stress accent..includes..the Mongolian, Tungus and Paleosiberian languages of eastern Asia.

1706 tr. E. Y. Ides Three Years Trav. Moscow to China vi. 27 Subject to the Jurisdiction of this City are several Tunguzian Heathens.

1706 tr. E. Y. Ides Three Years Trav. Moscow to China vii. 29 Several Tunguzians, amongst which is also their famed Schaman or Diabolical artist.

1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. iii. 231 From all the accounts I have heard..of the natives of Canada..they..resemble..the Tongusians.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 100 At that time [sc. 1607] many tungusian stems owned the paramount supremacy of the Buriats who had shortly before been expelled from Mongolia.

1839 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 9 198 The Tungusian, though confined to the eastern extreme of the ancient continent, contains some words common to it with languages spoken in Europe.

1855 H. D. Seymour Russia on Black Sea & Sea of Azof v. 49 The Tungusians extend on the east from the Yenisei to the Sea of Okhotsk.

1885 J. Byrne Struct. Lang. I. 398 The verb bi, which in Tungusian takes hi in the present.

1885 J. Byrne Struct. Lang. I. 391 The Tungusian dialect.

1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 105 The Gilyaks, a Tunguzian people of Eastern Siberia, hold a bear festival.

1956 J. Whatmough Lang. ii. 32 The great belt of Mongolian and Tungusian..is connected with the Turkic languages further west, and with Yakut to the North, reaching through Siberia to the Arctic.

1854 F. M. Müller in C. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind III. 277 Some of them are certainly widely distant; as, for instance, the dialects of the Finnic nations in the west, and of the Mongolic and Tungusic tribes in the east.

1864 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1863 111 The rank of the Scythian languages..is but an inferior one... They diminish in value eastward, the Tungusic being the poorest of all.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 2/2 Turkic lies much closer to Mongolic than it does to Samoyedic and Tungusic.

1914 M. A. Czaplicka Aboriginal Siberia ii. 15 If we are to provide a name for these unclassified tribes of the extreme north and east of Asia,..we would propose the name ‘Palaeo-Siberians’... It implies a comparison and a contrast with the other tribes—Finnic, Mongolic, Turkic, Samoyedic, and Tungusic—who are comparatively recent comers to Siberia.

1921 L. H. D. Buxton China 58 In the east there is evidence of considerable Manchu and Tungusic admixture.

1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iv. 54 Of the three branches of Altaic the easternmost and least significant numerically is the Manchurian or Tungusic. This comprises two subdivisions, viz. the declining Manchu of Northern Manchuria (Manchukuo), with the related languages..and the more primitive and vigorous Tungus (Evenki) and its cognates.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 3/1 Founded in 947 as a capital of the Khitan Mongols' Liao dynasty, it [sc. Peking] had been used similarly by the Tungusic Chin dynasty 1122–1234.