English
lahar
Lahar comes from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ ‘lahar: volcanic mudflow’, and goes back to Old Javanese walahar ‘mountain-stream’.
- Old Javanesemodernwalahar‘mountain-stream’
- Javanesemodernꦭꦲꦂlahar‘lahar: volcanic mudflow’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985lahar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Javanesemodernwalahar‘mountain-stream’
- Javanesemodernꦭꦲꦂlahar‘lahar: volcanic mudflow’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985lahar
Earliest quotation: 1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology: “Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually…”
The story
Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.
Every English word from Old Javanese walahar
Today it means
noun A volcanic mudflow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Javanese walahar / lahar