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111detonate — det|o|nate [ˈdetəneıt] v [I and T] [Date: 1700 1800; : Latin; Origin: detonare, from tonare to thunder ] to explode or to make something explode >detonation [ˌdetəˈneıʃən] n [U] …
112tornado — tor|na|do [to:ˈneıdəu US to:rˈneıdou] n plural tornadoes or tornados [Date: 1500 1600; : Spanish; Origin: tronada thunderstorm , from tronar to thunder , from Latin tonare; influenced by Spanish tornado, past participle of tornar to turn ] an… …
113astound — [17] Astound, astonish, and stun all come ultimately from the same origin: a Vulgar Latin verb *extonāre, which literally meant something like ‘leave someone thunderstruck’ (it was formed from the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’). This became Old… …
114detonate — [18] Detonate is related to thunder. It comes from the past participle of Latin dētonāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē ‘down’ and tonāre ‘thunder, roar’, which goes back to the same Indo European base (*ten , *ton ) as thunder. Latin …
115thunder — [OE] Etymologically, thunder is nothing more than ‘noise’. In common with German donner, Dutch donder, and Danish torden, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thonara . This was descended from the Indo European base *ton , *tn ‘resound’, which …
116tornado — [16] Tornado appears to denote etymologically something that ‘turns’, but this is due to a piece of English folk etymologizing. Its actual source is Spanish tronada ‘thunderstorm’, a derivative of the verb tronar ‘thunder’ (which in turn went… …
117detonieren — Vsw explodieren erw. fach. (18. Jh., Detonation 17. Jh.) mit Adaptionssuffix. Entlehnt aus frz. détoner, dieses aus l. dētonāre losdonnern , zu l. tonāre donnern . Abstraktum: Detonation. Ebenso nndl. detoneren, ne. detonate, nschw. detonera,… …
118Donner — Sm std. (9. Jh., donaron 8. Jh.), mhd. doner, toner, ahd. donar, t(h)onar, as. thunar Stammwort. Aus g. * þunra m. Donner (auch Donnergott ), auch in anord. þórr, þunarr, ae. þunor, afr. thuner, tonger, zu einer Schallwurzel, die speziell auch… …
119astonish — c.1300, astonien, from O.Fr. estoner to stun, daze, deafen, astound, from V.L. *extonare, from L. ex out + tonare to thunder (see THUNDER (Cf. thunder)); so, lit. to leave someone thunderstruck. The modern form (influenced by English verbs in ish …
120detonation — 1670s, explosion accompanied by loud sound, from Fr. détonation, from M.L. detonationem (nom. detonatio), from L. detonare to thunder down, to release one s thunder, roar out, from de down (see DE (Cf. de )) + tonare to thunder (see THUNDER (Cf …
