Everyday life

yurt

Turkic yurt meant a camp site or homeland, not a tent, and it still means 'homeland' or 'people' in Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh and Tatar; Russians applied it to the nomads' round felt dwelling, and English took that sense from Russian (through French or German) in the 1880s.

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The road to English

From Old Turkic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Old Turkic to Tatar

From Old Turkic to Kazakh

From Old Turkic to Uzbek

From Russian to French

From Russian to Polish

From English to American English

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

The road to English

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