Etymology

Andes Mountains

Today it means: One of the world's major mountain ranges stretching along the western end of South America from Colombia to the southern tip of Chile. Full definition →

Spanish Andes ← Quechua andi
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The story

  1. Quechua · derived fromandi“high crest”
  2. Spanish · derived fromAndes
  3. English todayAndes Mountains

From Andes + Mountains, Andes from Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (“high crest”).

Words from the same roots

SpanishAndes all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.