List of English words of Sami origin
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English words of Sami origin are relatively rare, having usually entered the English language via some other language.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
Johanna Laakso (toim.). Uralilaiset kansat. WSOY 1991.
