Geography Words in English
- brook – Old English broc, "flowing stream"
- city – Old French citet, "community of citizens"
- continent – Latin terra continens, "continuous land"
- country – Latin contra, "opposite, against"
- geyser – Old Norse geysa, "to gush"
- glacier – Savoy glacière, "moving mass of ice"
- lake – Latin lacus, "pond, lake"
- map – Latin mappa "napkin, cloth" (to maps draw on)
- marsh – Old English mersc, "sea"
- mesa – Spanish, "table"
- mountain – Latin montis, "mountain"
- oasis – Coptic, ouahe, "dwelling place, oasis"
- ocean – Greek okeanos, "great river surrounding earth"
- plain – Latin planus, "flat, even, level"
- plateau – Old French platel, "flat surface or thing"
- river – Latin riparia, "river"
- sea – Proto-Germanic saiwaz, "sheet of water"
- topography – Greek topographia, "description of a place"
- town – Proto-Germanic tunaz, "fence, hedge"
- tundra – Russian tundra, "elevated wasteland"
- village – Latin villaticum, "farmstead"
- volcano – Latin Vulcanus, the Roman god of fire