WEATHER: When this word emerged in English, it was not generic, but referred only to a certain kind of "weather" - the stormy kind. The background may extend all the way to Sanskrit, the word vata, meaning "wind." Similar words were wedar in Old Saxon, wetar in Old High German, and the Indo-European root word wetrom, meaning "storm." When it first appeared in Old English it was weder.
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