{"id":3190,"date":"2024-01-27T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2024-01-27T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T14:55:36","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology &#8211; Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Storm\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-01-27T14:50:33+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M37S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this Adventure in Etymology we\u2019re stirring up the origins of the word storm, as it\u2019s been quite stormful (abounding in storms, stormy) here in the UK recently.\n\n\n\nA storm [st\u0254\u02d0m\/st\u0254\u0279m] is:\n\n\nan extreme weather condition with very strong wind, heav...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"1.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2221\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3190-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3190-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/storm.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"storm.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this Adventure in Etymology we\u2019re stirring up the origins of the word <strong>storm<\/strong>, as it\u2019s been quite <strong>stormful<\/strong> (abounding in storms, stormy) here in the UK recently.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/texaus1\/33098418850\/in\/photolist-SqN3MY-J88ZHx-Jns8aW-S6cbCB-jYeqg-24jZ9Qg-9TS241-528Jbk-T4wdiQ-aWYxAa-T4wdqd-9Lnv3N-24pUo64-nJ8Xqb-29ESNCU-9RHN3x-24HUx86-24wqMQ-6jj8aC-21JedSr-aVTx5r-2acn45K-2coN6xD-cEKAU-JuMwwW-5BNJHU-Wf5TBy-qnGYzE-57v2Va-5eM3NG-8XM3Ni-9GK5iq-6NCXfQ-2ajen9W-2bU2nU4-8XQ7mq-6jeXBg-88xsid-8p1Yaz-UzdgDm-e8ZWdi-xmEx1x-28B3THk-mZ4gwi-5cjRsH-ecNm1S-XVq87w-vhYBkh-o4Pww6-fQz9ay\" title=\"lightning-storm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2847\/33098418850_e070bc6865_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" alt=\"lightning-storm\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>storm<\/strong> [st\u0254\u02d0m\/st\u0254\u0279m] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an extreme weather condition with very strong wind, heavy rain, and often thunder and lightning<\/li>\n<li>A heavy expulsion or fall of things<\/li>\n<li>A violent agitation of human society [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/storm\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>storm<\/em> (storm, dispute, brawl, fight), from Old English <em>storm<\/em> (storm), from Proto-West-Germanic <em>*sturm<\/em> (storm), from Proto-Germanic <em>*sturmaz<\/em> (storm), from PIE <em>*(s)twerH-<\/em> (to stir up, agitate, urge on, propel) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/procrastination#English\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>steer<\/strong>, <strong>stir<\/strong>, <strong>turbine<\/strong>, <strong>turbulence<\/strong> and <strong>turbo<\/strong> in English, <strong>turba<\/strong> (mob) in Spanish, <strong>torma<\/strong> (crowd, throng) in Italian, and <strong>twrf<\/strong> (disturbance, tumult) in Welsh  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/(s)twerH-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <strong>stormful<\/strong> means abounding with storms or stormy, and when the weather is <strong>stormful<\/strong>, you might be <strong>bestormed<\/strong> (overtaken with a storm, assailed with storms), <strong>stormbound<\/strong> (caught in a storm) or <strong>stormtossed<\/strong> (tossed by the wind in a storm), so make sure everything is <strong>stormworthy<\/strong> (fit for weathering a storm) and <strong>stormproof<\/strong> (capable of resisting a storm).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a stormy little song called <strong>Thunder Vengeance<\/strong> by Lovebites, one of my favourite Japanese bands:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWE7PqCpGi4?si=w-0EdlkzOML4DA7m\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on: <a 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A storm [st\u0254\u02d0m\/st\u0254\u0279m] is: an extreme weather condition with very strong wind, heavy rain, and often thunder and lightning A heavy expulsion or fall of things A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,20,56,12,4,58,55,1,57,59,119,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-english","category-etymology","category-italian","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}