•avalanche · earthflow, soilflow: a downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity · landslide: a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path
köken: From Alemannic German Lauwin, from Middle High German lowin, *lawene (compare Bavarian Laun, Lan), from Old High German lowin, lewina, from Late Latin labina, from Latin lābī (“to glide”).
köken: Borrowed from Franco-Provençal avalançhe (Savoy), blend of aval (“downhill”) and standard lavençhe, from Vulgar Latin *labanka (compare Occitan lavanca, Italian valanga), alteration of Late Latin labina (“landslide”) (compare (Dauphiné) Franco-Provençal lavino, Romansh lavina), from Latin lābor (“to slip, slide”).
köken: From German Lawine, from Alemannic German Lauwin, from Middle High German lowin, from Old High German lowin, from Late Latin labina, derived from Latin lābī.
Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦁꦱꦺꦴꦂ (longsor), from Old Javanese luṅsur (“coming down, slipping down, sliding down; to come down, to slide down, to slip down”). Doublet of lungsur.