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As of around 2014, the current consensus among specialists was that the word ''Sámi'' was borrowed from the [[Baltic languages|Proto-Baltic]] word {{lang|bat|*žēmē}}, meaning 'land' ([[cognate]] with [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] {{lang|sla-Latn|zemlja}} ({{lang|ru|земля}}), of the same meaning).<ref name=":2">{{cite web|author-last=Grünthal |author-first=Riho |date=29 February 2008 |title=The Finnic Ethnonyms |url=http://www.sgr.fi/ct/ct51.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708174734/http://www.sgr.fi/ct/ct51.html |archive-date=8 July 2004 |access-date=22 June 2013 |website=Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura |publisher=[[Finno-Ugrian Society]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-last=Derksen |author-first=Rick |title=Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |year=2007 |location=Leiden |page=542}}</ref><ref>{{Literatur|Autor=[[Lars Ivar Hansen]], [[Bjørnar Olsen]]|Titel=Samenes historie fram til 1750|Sprache=no|Verlag=Cappelen Forlag|Jahr=2007|ISBN=978-82-02-19672-1}} hier Seite 36</ref>