I’m currently ill and basically unable to do any homework, so I figured I might as well do
I’m currently ill and basically unable to do any homework, so I figured I might as well do some of very, very old requests from you guys. Here we go.Tempest derives from Old French tempeste, from Vulgar Latin tempestas ‘storm, weather, commotion’, which is related to tempus 'time, season’.Bonus fact: in most European languages words for 'weather’ used to be words for 'time’ (and you can still see that in the French word temps). -- source link
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