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"le vent d'autan" ?

Gwendy
User since 2008
Posts: 253

27 Oct. 2011

Google, wikipédia... no significant occurence, what's the english-american name for this wind ?
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6 comments

  • User since 2011
    Posts: 12

    27 Oct. 2011

    I don't understand what you want. A traduction ? There isn't any.
    It's a local wind of the Languedoc region (France), that blows from the south-east.
    It's a name, as for the sirocco in Africa, or tramontane and mistral in the south of France as well...
  • User since 2009
    Posts: 613

    27 Oct. 2011

    I'd translate it the Gone Wind because the translation for "Gone with the wind" is "Autan en emporte le vent"
  • User since 2010
    Posts: 115

    31 Oct. 2011

    I agree: there is no real translation for the term, because it's a French phenomenon which will not be written about in English very often, if at all.


    It appears on Wikipedia, but not in English.


    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vent_d'autan
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 253

    1 Nov. 2011

    Thanks a lot.
  • User since 2011
    Posts: 7

    7 Feb. 2012

    I love the answer about the translation
    "gone with the wind" is AUTAN (autant) en emporte le vent, very funny.
  • User since 2012
    Posts: 6

    10 Feb. 2012

    Maybe you can use 'southerly wind' it's a wind coming from the south, which is the case for the 'vent d'autan'

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