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tunturi
Sami · medieval
"a treeless hill or plain"
a treeless, frozen plain of the far north
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tundra
Russian · 1800s
"a treeless frozen plain"
adopted from Sami speakers into Russian for the frozen plains of the north
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tundra
English · 1840s
"a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region"
settled as the word for the biome by English-speaking geographers
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