Etymology

unweather

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Today it means: Bad weather; storm. Full definition →

Middle English unweder ← Old English unweder
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unweather · noun1

  1. Old English · calque ofunweder“bad weather; storm”
  2. Middle English · calque ofunweder
  3. English todayunweather

Likely a calque of Middle English unweder, Old English unweder (“bad weather; storm”) or Germanic cognates such as Saterland Frisian Uunweeder, Dutch onweer, German Low German Unweer, German Unwetter, and Danish uvejr, Swedish oväder, Icelandic óveður. In any case, equivalent to un- (negative) + weather.

unweather · verb2

Probably a back-formation from unweathered, equivalent to un- (reversive prefix) + weather.

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