taiga
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Russian тайга (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language),[1] or alternatively Yakut тайга (tajga, “untraversable forest”).[2][3]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
taiga (plural taigas)
- A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197:
- The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:
- Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
- 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197:
Translations [edit]
subarctic zone of coniferous forest
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References [edit]
- ^ "taiga." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
- ^ Цыганенко Г. П., "Этимологический словарь русского языка", 1989, стр. 418
- ^ Taiga in Bokmålsordboka
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Finnish [edit]
Noun [edit]
taiga
Declension [edit]
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Declension of taiga (type kala)
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