Where did the word "winter" and summer come from? How did they come about
Glass sculpture, Chihuly at Grant's Farm; http://www.chihuly.com
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Etymology - winter
From Proto-Germanic *wintra-, probably representing a nasalised variant of Proto-Indo-European *wed- ( > English water, wet). Cognate with Old Frisian winter, Old Saxon winter (Dutch winter), Old High German wintar (German Winter), Old Norse vetr (Swedish vinter) and Gothic ??????????????; and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin unda (“‘wave’”) and Lithuanian vanduõ (“‘water’”).
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