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ski

Norse skíð was a split piece of wood and a snowshoe; Norwegian ski spread across Europe with the skiing craze of the 1880s, through German to Hungarian and through French to Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Persian, and an Austrian officer took it to Japan in 1911.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Norwegian to Danish

From Norwegian to German, Hungarian

From Norwegian to French, Spanish

From French to Portuguese

From French to Romanian

From French to Persian

From Norwegian to Italian

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

From Norwegian to Modern Hebrew

500 BCEProto-Germanic

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

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