Dictionary verb ver verb *we- Wetter verwittern

verwittern

(ver verb)

Meanings

1.
to weather, to decay
(The core idea is that something is "run down" by the forces of nature for a long time. Think of an old mountain hut for example. Also works to describe a face that's full of wrinkles.)
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Word Family

Root: *we-

The core idea of this root was:

blowing

The most obvious offspring are weather, wind and the Latin branch around to vent and ventilate.
But the root is also the origin of window, which originally meant “wind-eye“, and Nirwana, which taken literally is something like “blowing out”.

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