From Greek 'Maiandros,' a famously winding river in Turkey — a place name that became a common verb for winding.
To follow a winding course, as a river or road. To wander at random; to move aimlessly. As a noun: a winding curve or bend of a river.
From Greek Maiandros, the ancient name of the Büyük Menderes River in western Anatolia, famous in antiquity for its extremely winding course through the Phrygian and Carian lowlands. The river name itself is pre-Greek, likely of Anatolian origin. Greek writers used the river as the paradigmatic image of tortuous curves, and meandros entered the language as a common noun meaning
The Büyük Menderes River in Turkey — the original Meander — still winds through its broad valley in western Anatolia, and its meanders are so pronounced that they have been studied by geomorphologists as a type specimen. The river gave its name not only to a common English word but also to the 'Greek key' pattern (also called a meander pattern) found in ancient art and architecture — a repeated geometric motif of interlocking right angles that suggests a winding river viewed from above.