The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them? Moss would never do.Tundra grass was impracticable. We needed the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak.
A long stretch of something, such as time.
1979 August 12, Ivan Gold, “One Man's Family”, inThe New York Times[1]:
His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There aretundras of time for him to cross and cross again as he recalls their life together and its sudden end: a quarter‐century of quotidian love and bruises and the ultimate estrangement of long familiarity.
1991, Dar Williams, “Calamity John”, inAll My Heroes Are Dead:
When you stood at the gulf of unknowing, / When you saw the greattundra of time, / And you cried for the winds to come blowing, / And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon, / 'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry.
2009 December 22, Louisa Kamps, “The Distraction Diet”, inElle[2]:
Putting on paper exactly what steps I need to take for each project does promote peace of mind, I find. And in my eagerness to tick items off on my "next action" lists, my productivity ramps up. Still, there are days of backsliding. I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vasttundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.
2018 January 2, Sara Pascoe, “We should all pick achievable resolutions – get through three days of dry January and you’re a hero to me”, inThe Guardian[3]:
We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation thetundra of time is impossible to navigate.
“tundra”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved3 July 2023
1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin,Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page28:
Kuin sovetin valta uuvvistaatundran väen elon.
How the Soviet rule is renewing the life of thetundra people.
1) obsolete *) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl) **) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka? or-kä? to thegenitive.
tundra(a natural zone that has developed in the arctic and subarctic zones and is characterised by low average temperatures, high humidity and short growing seasons)
2024 December 20, Claudi Casals,kas ir tundra[5]:
Varbūt jūs kādreiz esat dzirdējuši par to, ko sauc par "tundru", gan filmā, gan seriālā, gan dokumentālajā filmā. Bet kas irtundra?
You may have heard of what is called "thetundra" in a film, TV series or documentary. But what is thetundra?
tundra(the geographical area in the arctic and subarctic zone between the arctic deserts and the forest tundra)
