![]() Surnames Fairweather, Merriweather probably reflect disposition medieval lists and rolls also include Foulweder, Wetweder, Strangweder. Weather-breeder "fine, serene day which precedes and seems to prepare a storm" is from 1650s. : of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent, stormy tempestuous weather a tempestuous relationship tempestuously adverb tempestuousness noun Did you know Time is sometimes marked in seasons, and seasons are associated with the weather. ![]() Latin tempestas "weather" (see tempest) also originally meant "time " and words for "time" also came to mean weather in Irish ( aimsir), Serbo-Croatian ( vrijeme), Polish ( czas), etc. noun / tempist/ literary a violent storm, with very strong winds A tempest arose and they were drowned at sea. ![]() Greek had words for "good weather" ( aithria, eudia) and words for "storm" and "winter," but no generic word for "weather" until kairos (literally "time") began to be used as such in Byzantine times. In nautical use, as an adjective, "toward the wind" (opposed to lee). to affect by or as by a tempest disturb violently. a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult. Old English weder "air, sky breeze, storm, tempest," from Proto-Germanic *wedra- "wind, weather" (source also of Old Saxon wedar, Old Norse veðr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch weder, Old High German wetar, German Wetter "storm, wind, weather"), traditionally said to be from PIE *we-dhro-, "weather" (source also of Lithuanian vėtra "storm," Old Church Slavonic vedro "good weather"), suffixed form of root *we- "to blow." But Boutkan finds this "problematic from a formal point of view" and finds only the Slavic word a likely cognate.Īlteration of -d- to -th- begins late 15c., though such pronunciation may be older (see father (n.)). a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
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