undulation — the act of moving like waves
ondulaciόn — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning
The Latin word for a “wave” is unda. In Spanish, it is more common to use the word “ola” to refer to a wave in the ocean, but they also use the word “onda” which is very similar to its Latin ancestor.
From unda, we get our English…
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