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Early Hick Lexicon — Wind Terms

Entries in the Wind Terms semantic field.

bressim /bres.sim/
weather (conditions) (noun) — Forms verb bressim'er "to change (of weather)" [Wind Terms, Climate Terms]
Shows lexicalization of translative case marking, conceptualizing weather as "becoming like wind"
eldul /el.dul/
north (noun) — Derived from term for north wind [Directional Terms, Wind Terms]
Shows historical Eldrim influence on directional system