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kahvi: Arabic → Swedish → Finnish · Lexodus

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kahvi

Borrowed from Swedish kaffe (with regular -ff- > -hv- due to most Finnish dialects lacking /f/), ultimately from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: kahvi (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1630
c. 1650

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