Etymograph

English

Red Forest

From red + forest.

A compound of red + forest

Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-

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Proto-Germanic *raudaz

Proto-West Germanic *raud

Old English rēad

Middle English red ‘red’

English red

Early Medieval Latin forestis

Old French forest ‘royal hunting ground’

Middle English forest ‘a forest or wood’

English forest

Today it means

name A red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.

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