The story
- Portuguese · derived fromVolta
- French · calque ofHaute-Volta
- English todayUpper Volta
Calque of French Haute-Volta, from haute (“high; upper”) + Volta (“the Volta, a river in West Africa”), from Portuguese Volta.
Words from the same roots
PortugueseVolta all →
volta
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.