Pigan, verb = to being to rain \/ to start raining<\/p>\n
Etymology:<\/strong> pigan<\/em> comes from pig<\/em>, beak, spout, to interfere<\/p>\n Example of usage:<\/strong> Related word:<\/strong> I came across this word the other day while searching for another word in my Welsh dictionary and it just appealed to me. I don’t think it’s a very common word as I’ve never heard it or seen it being used.<\/p>\n In Chinese you can express the same idea using the particle le:<\/p>\n \u4e0b\u96e8 (xi\u00e0y\u01d4) = it’s raining, \u4e0b\u96e8\u4e86 (xi\u00e0y\u01d4 le) it’s just started raining<\/p>\n Do other languages have words with the same or a similar meaning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pigan, verb = to being to rain \/ to start raining Etymology: pigan comes from pig, beak, spout, to interfere Example of usage: Mae hi’n pigan = Mae hi’n dechrau bwrw glaw = It’s starting to rain Related word: piglaw – heavy rain, drizzle I came across this word the other day while searching for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMae hi’n pigan = Mae hi’n dechrau bwrw glaw = It’s starting to rain<\/p>\n
\npiglaw – heavy rain, drizzle<\/p>\n