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I don't think it is as clear with the Russian word for market (торг) being derived from the name of the Finnish city, because related words (trh in Czech, targ

I don't think it is as clear with the Russian word for market (торг) being derived from the name of the Finnish city, because related words (trh in Czech, targ in Polish...) (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/t%D1%8Arg%D1%8A https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/t...) are used in most Slavic languages, so this origin explanation feels a bit strange.

yencabulator 1y ago
The other way around, the city of Turku was named after the word for marketplace, "tǔrgǔ". The word's origin has been traced to the Novgorod area. Read it again: > The Finnish city of Turku [...] derives its name from [...]