Word “meander” comes from river Meander (Greek: Μαίανδρος), which is very windy in places. Strabo (1st c. BC/AD): ‘its course is so exceedingly winding that everything winding is called meandering.”
(Ancient Greek comic poet Menander‘s name is a combination of μένος and ἀνήρ and has nothing to do with this.)
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