List of English words of Sami origin
- List of English words of Sami origin
English words of Sami origin are relatively rare, having usually entered the English language via some other language.
Words loaned to English
Some words specific to the arctic environment have been loaned to English, specifically: (archaic) "morse" (walrus) ← Sami "morša" (via Slavic), "tundra" ← Kildin Sami "tū̄ndra" "of the treeless plain" (via Russian). In Kildin Sami, the word for tundra is "tundar", "tū̄ndra" is in the genitive case.
References
Johanna Laakso (toim.). "Uralilaiset kansat". WSOY 1991.
ee also
*Sami languages
*List of English words of foreign origin
*List of English words of Finnish origin
*Finno-Ugric languages
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