weather

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The state of the air outside at a particular time and place, such as how hot, cold, wet, or windy it is.

   We were hoping for good weather for the picnic.

2. 2
   verb

   To come through a difficult situation safely.

   The company managed to weather the financial crisis.

3. 3
   verb

   To change or wear away slowly because of being exposed to sun, wind, and rain.

   The old wooden hut had weathered to a soft grey over the years.

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Simplified etymology

Weather comes from Old English and ultimately from a Germanic root also linked to wind. Weather and wither appear to have begun as the same word before their forms became associated with different senses.

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather…

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