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Where does winter get it's name?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Old English winter (plural wintru), from Proto-Germanic *wintruz "winter" (source also of Old Frisian, Dutch winter, Old Saxon, Old High German wintar, German winter, Danish and Swedish vinter, Gothic wintrus, Old Norse vetr "winter"), probably literally "the wet season," from PIE *wend-, from root *wed- "water, wet".

On another old guess, cognate with Gaulish vindo-, Old Irish find "white."

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8y ago

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