Animals, plants & weather

tundra

Kola Sami speakers called the treeless upland tūndar; Russian took it as tundra, and from Russian it spread to Ukrainian, Finnish, German and French, and with science to every language for the Arctic plain.

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The road to English

From Russian to Ukrainian

From Russian to German

From Russian to French

From Russian to Finnish

From English to Spanish

From German to Japanese

1600Kildin Sami

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

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