English
Norilsk
Norilsk comes from Russian Нори́льск, and goes back to Нори́лка ‘Norilka (river)’.
- RussianmodernНори́лка‘Norilka (river)’
- Russian, derivedmodernНори́льскNorílʹsk
- Englishearliest quotation 1968Norilsk
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- RussianmodernНори́лка‘Norilka (river)’
- Russian, derivedmodernНори́льскNorílʹsk
- Englishearliest quotation 1968Norilsk
Earliest quotation: 1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties: “In the area of the far north, to the…”
Every English word from Russian Нори́лка
Today it means
name A city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, second largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Russian Нори́лка / Norilsk