Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1840s
Tundra
from тундра (tundra)
- Meaning
- Arctic treeless plain — from Sami/Finnish *tunturi* (mountain) via Russian.
- Source word
- тундра (tundra)
- Route into English
- Russian geographical writing → English natural history mid-19th c.
- Arrived
- 1840s
English borrows.
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