eddy

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• /ˈɛdi/
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• UK, US: /ˈɛd.i/
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Diminutives + -y.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *éti Proto-Germanic *idi- Proto-West Germanic *id- Old English ed- Proto-Indo-European *h2ékweh2 Proto-Germanic *ahwō Proto-West Germanic *ahu Old English ēa Old English edēa Middle English eddy English eddy From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1é, and, consequently, cognate with Latin et. Related also to Danish ide (“eddy”), Swedish eda (“eddy”), Norwegian ida, ia, ea (“eddy”), Icelandic iða (“eddy”).

Clipping of edible.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: warrelstrome — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Arabic: دُوَّامَة (duwwāma) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Bulgarian: вихър (vihǎr) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Bulgarian: вихрушка (vihruška) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Catalan: remolí — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Catalan: gorga — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Chinese Mandarin: 渦流 /涡流 (wōliú) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Danish: hvirvel — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Danish: strømhvirvel — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Dutch: draaikolk — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Dutch: werveling — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Faroese: íða — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Finnish: akanvirta — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• French: contre-courant — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• French: remous — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Galician: remuíño — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• German: Wirbel — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Hebrew: זֶרֶם עַרְבֹּלֶת (zérem arbólet) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Hungarian: bukószél — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Irish: saobhshruth — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Italian: vortice — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Italian: gorgo — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Italian: mulinello — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Italian: controcorrente — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Japanese: 渦流 (karyū) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Japanese: 渦 (uzu) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Korean: 회오리 (hoe'ori) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Korean: 소용돌이 (soyongdori) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: okori — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: mumuhau — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: haupongi — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: kōripo — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: riporipo — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Māori: kōmingomingo — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Norwegian Bokmål: bakevje — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Occitan: remolin — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Polish: przeciwprąd — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Portuguese: vórtice — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Portuguese: remoinho — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Romanian: contracurent — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Romanian: bulboană — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Romanian: volbură — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Romanian: vârtej — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Russian: завихре́ние (zavixrénije) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Russian: вихрь (vixrʹ) — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Serbo-Croatian: vrtlog — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Serbo-Croatian: vir — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Serbo-Croatian: protustruja — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Spanish: contracorriente — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Spanish: revesa — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Spanish: remolino — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Swedish: eda — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Swedish: strömvirvel — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Tagalog: uliuli — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• Turkish: anafor — air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current
• French: tourbillon — whirlpool
• Hebrew: עַרְבֹּלֶת (arbólet) — whirlpool
• Polish: wir — whirlpool
• Turkish: anafor — whirlpool
• Turkish: girdap — whirlpool
• Turkish: burgaç — whirlpool
• Māori: whirowhiro — to move in, or as if in, an eddy
• Māori: tawhiro — to move in, or as if in, an eddy
• Polish: falować — to move in, or as if in, an eddy
• Polish: zafalować — to move in, or as if in, an eddy
• Polish: wirować — to move in, or as if in, an eddy
• Polish: zawirować — to move in, or as if in, an eddy