thalweg
pronunciation
How to pronounce thalweg in British English:
UK ['tɑ:lveɪk]
How to pronounce thalweg in American English:
US ['tɑlˌveg]
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- Noun:
- the middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states
- a line following the lowest points of a valley
Word Origin
- thalweg (n.)
- 1831, from German Thalweg "path along the bottom of a valley," from thal (see dale) + weg (see way).
Example
- 1. This eventually meant the transfer of about 700 river islands on the chinese side of the thalweg which until then almost all had been under soviet control - among them zhenbao island .