Animals, plants & weather

caribou

The North American reindeer is named in Mi'kmaq for the way it paws snow aside to reach the moss below; French settlers in Canada took the word and passed it to English and to the French of Europe, which lent it on to Italian, Spanish and Russian.

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The road to English

From Canadian French to French

From French to Italian

From French to Spanish

From French to Russian

From English to Dutch

From English to Polish

From English to Japanese

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Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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