pokrzywa [n] = nettle in Polish
The word “nettle” in all Slavic languages comes from the Proto-Slavic “kopriva” but in Polish the letters “k” and “p” got swapped over.
kopřiwa in Upper Sorbian
kopśiwa in Lower Sorbian
kopřiva in Czech
kópriva (dialectal) in Slovak (standard: žihľava)
kopriva in Slovene & Croatian
коприва {kopriva} in Serbian, Bulgarian & Macedonian
крапива {krapiva} in Russian
крапіва {krapiva} in Belarusian
кропива {kropyva} in Ukrainian
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