Welsh words for rain

[bunn]

I have to admit, that is not the meaning of 'pistyllio' that I learned as a kid growing up in Swansea. :-D Also I'm fairly sure that when you include things like 'spitting' 'mizzle' and 'downpour' the English must have pretty much the same number of words for rain as the Welsh. I suppose we need them...

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[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised?

I'm not sure how many words there are in Scots - I know there are all sorts of damp and miserable, like dreich, and dreepit, and all sorts of words for dirty and muddy and mucky - in fact, I was wondering if the Scots word 'mockit' was related to 'mochen' in Welsh (please note that -illiterate Welsh exile that I am - I'm having to spell this phonetically) as in 'mochen thee' for dirty pig!