larch
LARCH · noun
Origin
Larch comes from early modern German Larche/Lärche, from Middle High German larche, from Old High German larihha, from Proto-West Germanic *larikā — itself an early borrowing from Latin larix, which came from Ancient Greek λάριξ (lárix), possibly of Gaulish origin.
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Journey
The word seems to have kept a fairly stable meaning throughout its history, simply naming the same kind of tree as it passed from Greek into Latin, then into the Germanic languages, and finally into English.