The story
- kpv · derived fromтшак“mushroom, growth”
- Russian · borrowed fromча́га
- English todaychaga
Borrowed from Russian ча́га (čága), Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak, “mushroom, growth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
chaga
Today it means: A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus. Full definition →
Russian ча́га ← kpv тшак