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The paper expands on the borrowing of Russ. most ‘1. bridge; 2. floor’ into various indigenous languages of Siberia, adding a new perspective, a new piece of data, and illustrating the importance of reevaluation of individual etymologies in the light of an entire group of parallel examples. It concludes with a full diagram of what the author believes to be the most probable routes of borrowing.