When we are talking about ‘boisterous weather’, we usually mean stormy, windy, or turbulent again. But what does ‘boisterous’ mean exactly, and is there actually something like ‘fierce weather’ as a counterpart?
The original meaning of ungestüm So was ‘not calm’. That has become ‘boisterous’ in Dutch. Shape gestüm (without prefix) Never ended up in Dutch, and nowadays no longer exists in German.
Interesting is that ‘turbulent’ is not a contrast of ‘fierce’. According to Onze Language, the term ‘boisterous’ is only a word for a restless or unpredictable weather, and there is no usual counterpart such as ‘stupid weather’.
In Drents we have a nice wealth of words that have to do with the weather. For example, ‘boisterous’ in Drents is often described as ‘rugged or crushed weather’, ‘plus or plus weather’, or even ‘glossy or skirty weather’, explains Streektaolf officer Arja Olthof of the huus of the taol. “Komp of bad weather an, then ‘Zwabbert de Locht’, hej ‘Fat Locht’ and Kuj Beus weather, Minus weather or Baisten weather.”
Furthermore, there are also many words for rain in the Drents: “As the Zachies Regent: drabbeln, miggeln, drulen, mosses or moths, siepeln and zammeln. As it rains hard: tubes (‘the bisting aordig’), hoses, plèeren (‘the plède uut de laid’, spells, spells out.
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