Word Association: Plangorous

And so to Burgenland aka Weinland and our “hut” which is sans electricity and other mod cons. But this is more than offset by it being in the heart of wine-producing country. The word of the day will be a challenge this week, unless it is wine or stork based (the villages around Neusiedlersee are renowned for their stork population as well as their vintners). However, a bit of word association made today’s quite easy:
“Plangorous” is an adjective meaning: ‘Resonant or plaintive in sound; characterized by loud lamentation’ (OED), therefore, plangorous means ‘crying’. ‘Weinen’ is the German word for ‘crying’ and lopping off the last syllable, we get left with ‘Wein’, which happens to be German for ‘wine’. Interestingly, despite the apparent similarities of the words, they have different etymologies. ‘Weinen’ comes from the old German word ‘weinōn’, whereas ‘Wein’ stems from the Latin ‘vīnum’ (and then via ‘wīn’ to ‘Wein’).
So today’s pic is from the vintner Landauer and our Landauer recommendation is the Beerenauslese Zweigelt – a cheeky little red pudding wine. Elsewhere, we tippled on a Schandl Cuvee Barrique, which is a jolly good slurping wine.

Day #111 of a 365 project, where the daily pic is informed by the OED word of the day.