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The word for weather in Russian is \u043f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430<\/strong> (pogoda) [p\u0250\u02c8\u0261od\u0259], which sounds more or less like pagoda in English. <\/p>\n The English word pagoda<\/strong>, which refers to an Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, comes from Portuguese pagode<\/em>, which comes via Tamil from the Sanskrit \u092d\u0917\u0935\u0924\u0940 \u200e(Bhagavat\u012b, name of a goddess) or \u092d\u093e\u0917\u0935\u0924 \u200e(Bh\u0101gavata, \u201cfollower of Bhagavat\u012b\u201d).<\/p>\n In French the words for weather, temps<\/strong>, also means time and tense, and comes from the Latin tempus<\/em> (time, period, age, tense, weather), from the Proto-Indo-European *tempos<\/em> \u200e(stretch), from the root *temp-<\/em> \u200e(to stetch, string), which is also the root of the English word tempest<\/strong>, via the Latin tempestas<\/em> \u200e(storm), and the English word tense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Breton also has one word for time and weather – amzer<\/strong>, which comes from the Proto-Celtic *amster\u0101<\/em> \u200e(time, moment), which is also the root of the Irish aimsir<\/em> (weather, time and tense), the Manx emshir<\/em> (weather, time and tense) and the Scottish Gaelic aimsir<\/em> (climate, weather, season, era, time, reign), the Welsh amser<\/em> (time, age, tense), and the Cornish amser<\/em> (tense).<\/p>\n Sources: www.study-languages-online.com<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n I’ve started putting together a new section on Omniglot featuring weather-related words and phrases<\/a>. So far I have pages in Czech<\/a>, Russian<\/a> and Welsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the UK we talk about the weather quite a bit. It’s (usually) a neutral and uncontroversial topic, and while some people are genuinely fascinated by it, for most of us it’s just a way to start a conversation. Do people do this is other countries? Or do you use of topics as conversation starters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The word for weather in Russian is \u043f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 (pogoda) [p\u0250\u02c8\u0261od\u0259], which sounds more or less like pagoda in English. The English word pagoda, which refers to an Asian religious building, especially a multistory Buddhist tower, comes from Portuguese pagode, which comes via Tamil from the Sanskrit \u092d\u0917\u0935\u0924\u0940 \u200e(Bhagavat\u012b, name of a goddess) or \u092d\u093e\u0917\u0935\u0924 \u200e(Bh\u0101gavata, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,99,104,107,111,127,10,15,23,45,52,53,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-sanskrit","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}