Drizzle

"It's drizzling," I thought, as I started my morning walk, and then thought, "how curious!  Don't think I know that word in Spanish...."

Well, a drizzle--again, both a noun and a verb--is a light, gentle rain.  Think London, although that may evoke fog--quite another thing.  And where does the word come from?

Old English--that I suspected.  And the dictionary confirms that "perhaps it's from verb drysnian, meaning to pass away, to vanish."

Logical enough.  This morning, in the drizzle, the contours of buildings, the angles of street corners all seemed slightly to vanish.