monsoonal

monsoonal

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English monsoon
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English monsoonal

    From monsoon + -al.

    Adjective

    monsoonal (not comparable)

    1. Relating to monsoons.
      • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 3:
        Who fishes in the yellow-coloured monsoonal runoff from the drainages, with sheets of deep water pouring into the wide rivers swollen over their banks, filling vast plains with floodwaters?

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