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dacha

A dacha was first 'something given': land granted by a prince, from the Russian verb dat' 'to give'. It came to mean a summer house in the country; English took it at the end of the 19th century, and it spread to Ukrainian, Polish, French, Japanese and, as Datsche, to East Germany's allotment cabins.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Russian to Ukrainian

From Russian to Polish

From Russian to French

From Russian to German

From Russian to Japanese

600 CEProto-Slavic

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

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