Here's a question: Since the implied subject of weather words is usually muD (or sometimes maybe chal for precipitation and the like), how would you all interpret vungwI'?

Would you read it as the noun "hurricane", as in the part of the atmosphere that's hurricaning, considered as a single system? (So you could perhaps say something like FloridaDaq ghoSlI' 'Irma' vungwI' "Hurricane Irma is approaching Florida", with the assumption that "hurricane" is treated like a rank or title.)

Or would it be taken to mean something less specific or useful, like "the atmosphere as a whole, which happens to be hurricaning somewhere", assuming it means anything at all?

Okrand has famously been coy about what the subject of the weather verbs is. Sometimes it's muD, but only in the way a meteorologist would explain the science behind it. Generally they're used without subjects—not that they use indefinite subjects, though. You're supposed to "just know" what the subject is.

I wouldn't assume that vungwI' is the noun form of hurricane any more than I would assume that SISwI' is the noun form of rain. Instead of trying to turn it into a noun, use it as a subjectless verb.

tugh FloridaDaq vung; ghoSlI' Irma.

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