Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *čaKi-
Meaning: 1 partition (in house) 2 to tread a path ( < 'make a partition'?)
Russian meaning: 1 перегородка (в строении) 2 протоптать (тропу)
Evenki: čaki- 2
Literary Manchu: čaxin 1
Comments: ТМС 2, 379. The Evk. form (borrowed in Yak. čākɨ 'rammed path') presupposes a secondary semantic development and is somewhat uncertain here. Man. > Dag. č́agin (Тод. Даг. 180). tunget-prnum,tunget-meaning,tunget-rusmean,tunget-evk,tunget-man,tunget-reference,