And of course, to go further into nothing making any sense:
The Finnish language took the Russian word for sable, sóbol, and made a word of its own based off that: sopuli. But sopuli doesn’t mean sable. It means lemming. Somebody got confused. Later they heard about sable and named it soopeli in Finnish.
Suddenly… Sorok!
Sorok is 40 sable furs tied together for easier countiing while trading, it is soooo obvious!
And of course, to go further into nothing making any sense:
The Finnish language took the Russian word for sable, sóbol, and made a word of its own based off that: sopuli. But sopuli doesn’t mean sable. It means lemming. Somebody got confused. Later they heard about sable and named it soopeli in Finnish.