Timeline for Do the words “avalanche” and “avaler” have common etymology?
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| May 28, 2015 at 21:02 | vote | accept | psygo | ||
| May 23, 2015 at 7:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackFrench/status/602018775513300992 | ||
| May 23, 2015 at 6:57 | comment | added | Yohann V. | Just wiktionary in english answers for you ;) | |
| May 23, 2015 at 5:11 | answer | added | Personne | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 23, 2015 at 1:45 | history | edited | Édouard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2015 at 1:37 | answer | added | Édouard | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 23, 2015 at 1:14 | comment | added | Édouard | It would seem that “avaler” first meant “descendre” ; avalanche definitely as nothing to do with a mass of snow swallowing stuff. There might be another common origin, though, but the TLF (avaler, avalanche) doesn’t seem to go that way. I’ll try looking a bit further, but I unfortunately don’t have any Grand Robert or other “large” dictionary at my disposal. | |
| May 23, 2015 at 0:17 | history | asked | psygo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |