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Drizzle – the smallest rain

A word for the lightest rain, drizzle comes from Middle English drislen, built from Old English drēosan, ‘to fall’. Germanic cousins include Niesel and motregen, while the Romance languages turn to bruine and llovizna. Across Europe, the sense is shared — soft rain that seems to hover before it lands.

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