Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *ner- / *nar-
Meaning: 1 lean 2 thin 3 weak
Russian meaning: 1 худой 2 тонкий 3 слабый
Evenki: ńurkūn 1, 2
Spoken Manchu: narǝhun 'fine, thin, exact'(2408)
Literary Manchu: ńere 2, 3, nar-χun 2
Jurchen: nar-gi 'narrow' (670)
Comments: ТМС 1, 585-586, 649, 654-655. Doerfer TMN 1, 515, MT 138, Rozycki 161 regard Man. narxun as borrowed < Mong. (cf. Mong. nari-qan 'rather fine, thin, slender'), which is somewhat dubious, but not entirely excluded. tunget-prnum,tunget-meaning,tunget-rusmean,tunget-evk,tunget-sib,tunget-man,tunget-chu,tunget-reference,