10 Years After

Monsoon

Often while I am bored at work I'll look up the etymology of groups of words
at dictionary.com to amuse myself. I was doing weather terms the other day and was surprised by Monsoon. I was thinking it was some a word from maybe an Indic language or somewhere from the Indian Ocean or South Pacific.

[Obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim, season, from wasama, to mark. See wsm in Semitic Roots.]