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Reindeer

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means a large antlered deer native to subarctic and arctic regions, often domesticated
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Stage 1 of 2
hreinn
Old Norse · medieval
"the reindeer"
the name for the antlered deer of the subarctic tundra
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Stage 2 of 2
reindeer
English · 1400s
"an antlered deer of subarctic and arctic regions"
settled as the English word for the domesticated northern deer
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