Etymology

bajada

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Today it means: In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus. Full definition →

Spanish bajada ← Old Spanish baxar ← Vulgar Latin *bassiāre
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gʷémtis
  3. Proto-Hellenic*gʷə́tis
  4. Ancient Greekβάσις (básis)bor.?
  5. Ancient Greekβαθύς (bathús)bor.?
  6. Latinbassus
  7. Vulgar Latin*bassiāre
  8. Old Spanishbaxar
  9. Spanishbajar
  10. Spanishbajada
  11. English todaybajada

Borrowed from Spanish bajada.

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