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mangont
Siberian (Yakut) · pre-1600s
"creature believed to burrow underground"
a folk term for the tusked remains found frozen in the permafrost
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mamont
Russian · 1600s-1700s
"the extinct tusked animal"
adopted from Siberian accounts of the giant tusks and bones
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mammoth
English · 1700s
"the extinct woolly elephant"
later also used to describe anything of huge size
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