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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sintvloed.
Originally equivalent to now obsolete zin or zene (“permanent, forever”) + vloed (“flood”), but folketymologically reinterpreted as the compound zonde (“sin”) + vloed (“flood”). Cognate to German Sintflut, also Sündflut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔnt.flut/
- Hyphenation: zond‧vloed
Noun
zondvloed f (plural zondvloeden, diminutive zondvloedje n)
- Deluge
- deluge, great flood
- (figurative) spill or abundance of water
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