Gondwana
English
Etymology
From Sanskrit गोण्डवन (goṇḍavana, “Forest of Gondi”). The continent was named after the region in India by Austrian scientist Eduard Suess in 1861.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑndˈwɑnə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɒndˈwɑːnə/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnə
Proper noun
Gondwana
- A region of central India.
- (geology) A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.
- Synonym: (dated) Gondwanaland
- 2020, Tianfeng Wan, The Tectonics and Metallogenesis of Asia, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:
- At that time, the Gondwana supercontinent was located at the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere, developed amphibolite metamorphism and formed the united crystalline basement at about 510 Ma.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
region
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southern supercontinent
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Finnish
Etymology
From Sanskrit गोण्डवन (goṇḍavana).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡondwɑnɑ/, [ˈɡo̞ndwɑ̝nɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ondwɑnɑ
- Syllabification(key): Gond‧wa‧na
Declension
| Inflection of Gondwana (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Gondwana | — | ||
| genitive | Gondwanan | — | ||
| partitive | Gondwanaa | — | ||
| illative | Gondwanaan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Gondwana | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Gondwana | — | |
| gen. | Gondwanan | |||
| genitive | Gondwanan | — | ||
| partitive | Gondwanaa | — | ||
| inessive | Gondwanassa | — | ||
| elative | Gondwanasta | — | ||
| illative | Gondwanaan | — | ||
| adessive | Gondwanalla | — | ||
| ablative | Gondwanalta | — | ||
| allative | Gondwanalle | — | ||
| essive | Gondwanana | — | ||
| translative | Gondwanaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Gondwanatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
French
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɔnˈdva.na/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: Gon‧dwa‧na
Declension
Declension of Gondwana
| singular | |
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| nominative | Gondwana |
| genitive | Gondwany |
| dative | Gondwanie |
| accusative | Gondwanę |
| instrumental | Gondwaną |
| locative | Gondwanie |
| vocative | Gondwano |
Further reading
- Gondwana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡõ.duˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [ɡõ.dʊˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ɡõˈdwɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡõ.duˈɐ.na/ [ɡõ.dʊˈɐ.na], (faster pronunciation) /ɡõˈdwɐ.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡõˈdwɐ.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡõˈdwa.nɐ/
Coordinate terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡondˈwana/ [ɡõn̪d̪ˈwa.na]
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: Gond‧wa‧na
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