The Uralic (or Finno-Ugric) languages are probably native to the Ural mountains. They are spoken in parts of northwestern Russia but also include Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish and Sami. These languages are known to have borrowed many words from the surrounding Indo-European languages, such as Proto-Germanic and Indo-Iranian, probably even from Proto-Indo-European itself. There were fewer loans in the other direction, but they exist. Two words in this quiz may be very early borrowings, others are much more recent, mostly from Finnish and Hungarian.
Thumbnail: cropped picture of Birch-bark letter 292 (13th century), the earliest written Finnish: source.
* Words with an asterisk have an uncertain or disputed etymology.