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• tayga, tajga

語源

From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language, cf Khakas: тағ (tağ)), or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest”). Doublet of Tayga.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtaɪɡə/, /taɪˈɡɑː/
• 韻: -aɪɡə, -ɑː
• Homophone: tiger (non-rhotic, using the initial-stress pronunciation)

名詞

taiga (plural taigas)

1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

   Synonyms: boreal forest, snow forest

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 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, published 2007, page 871:

     Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

   • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 April 2016, page 98:

     The taiga is anything but pristine wilderness: It is an inhabited landscape where the indigenous Sámi and their reindeer have lived ever since the ice retreated 10,000 years ago. […] 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.

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