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 tūndâr, tūndra is in the genitive case.

References

Johanna Laakso (toim.). Uralilaiset kansat. WSOY 1991.

See also

• Sami languages
• List of English words of foreign origin
• List of English words of Finnish origin
• Uralic languages