weather
要点天気
意味
- (ある時間・ある一定期間の)天気,天候
- あらし,悪天候
- (外科に)…を当てる,乾かす
- 〈あらし・危険など〉を切り抜ける,乗り切る
- (船などが)…の風上に出る(を通る)
- (外気にさらされて)変色する,風化する
例文
The plane was delayed on account of bad weather.
悪天候で飛行機が遅れた。
I hope this fine weather lasts till the weekend.
この晴天が週末まで続くことを望む。
The bad weather prevented me from going fishing.
天候が悪くて私は釣りに行けなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”)…