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January 31, 2023

Sailing Sundays: ‘Trade’ is named after the trade winds, not the other way around

Sailing Sundays: ‘Trade’ is named after the trade winds, not the other way around

by Cuan Law / Monday, 27 July 2020 / Published in Blog
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Trade Winds

The term “trade winds” originally derive from the early fourteenth century late Middle English word “trade,” meaning “path” or “track.”

The captain of a sailing ship seeks a course along which the winds can be expected to blow in the direction of travel. During the Age of Sail, the pattern of prevailing winds made various points of the globe easy or difficult to access, and therefore had a direct effect on European empire-building and thus on modern political geography.

By the 18th century, the importance of the trade winds to England’s merchant fleet for crossing the Atlantic Ocean had led both the general public and etymologists to identify the name with a later meaning of “trade”: “(foreign) commerce”.

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