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6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
originFrom German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian степь (stepʹ, “flat grassy plain”) or Ukrainian степ (step). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *сътепь (sŭtepĭ, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to топот (topot), топтать (toptatĭ).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0