THALWEG (a German word compounded from Thal, valley, and YPeg, way)

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THALWEG (a German word compounded from Thal, valley, and YPeg, way) in

physical

PHYSICAL

geography

GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil,
earth
- EARTH
- EARTH (a word
  common
  - COMMON
  to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
- EARTH, FIGURE OF
- EARTH, FIGURE OF THE
, and ypiickty, to write)

, a

term

TERM

adopted into

English

ENGLISH

usage signifying the

line

LINE

of greatest slope along the bottom of a valley, i.e. a

line

LINE

drawn

DRAWN

through the lowest points of a valley in its downward slope. It thus marks the natural
direction of a watercourse.

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