Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
so, doesn't your kink confirm that "gheim" IS the base for winter?

No, goofy's link shows that the PIE root glossed as winter is the origin of Latin hiems 'winter], hibernus] 'pertaining to winter', (it's also the source of Sanskrit hima 'cold, frost; snow' whence Himalayas the mountain range). Some derive English winter (and the other Germanic words like German Winter) from PIE *kweid- 'white, light'.


ok, I'm confused. PIE gheim -> heims -> winter, no?

maybe I'm just not reading the nomenclature correctly?

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