Etymology

bergwind

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Today it means: A hot dry wind blowing from the mountainous interior to the coast. Full definition →

Afrikaans bergwind ← Dutch bergwind
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived frombergwind
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed frombergwind“mountain wind”
  3. English todaybergwind

Borrowed from Afrikaans bergwind (“mountain wind”), from Dutch bergwind, equivalent to berg + wind.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.