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Tyfoong

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Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of typhoon. alt-of, obsolete

    "Three or four years sometimes pass without a tyfoong, while, in other years, there are several. The monsoons to the south of the Equator are less regular than to the north, their directions suffering considerable deviations from[…]"

Etymology

From a Sinitic language term 大風／大风 ("big wind"); compare e.g. Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/.

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