Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bergwind

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: berg-wind
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hot dry wind blowing from the mountainous interior to the coast.

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Prefix: berg
Root: bergwind
Suffix: wind

Inflected Forms

bergwinds (plural)

Questions

What does bergwind mean?: A hot dry wind blowing from the mountainous interior to the coast.
Where does bergwind come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

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