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tronada
Spanish · 1500s
"a thunderstorm"
a thunderstorm, from tronar (to thunder), later applied to violent windstorms
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tornado
English · 1600s
"a violently rotating column of air"
reshaped and settled as the word for a violently rotating windstorm
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