The story
- English · derived fromweather-gall
- Scots · borrowed fromweather-ga
- English todayweather-gaw
Probably borrowed from Scots weather-ga, weather-gaw, weather-gow, possibly from English weather-gall, from weather + gall (“blister, swelling; (figurative) something exasperating or galling”). cognates * Dutch weergal * German wettergalle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.