wynter

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English

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Noun

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wynter (plural wynters)

  1. Obsolete spelling of winter.
    • 1563/1939, Thomas Hyll, First garden book ; being a faithful reprint of A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachinge howe to dress, sowe, and set a garden, page 48
      for it wel abydeth the cold wynter tyme, and ys also muche strenthened therby, and it shalbe good with other herbes unto the sede tyme.
    • c. 1612/1849, William Strachey, The historie of travaile into Virginia Britannia : expressing the cosmographie and comodities of the country, togither with the manners and customes of the people, page 30
      and their owne judgments and saffeties instructing them to worke hard in the faint tyme of sommer, (the better to be accomodated and fitted for the wynter,)
    • 1624, Buckingham, letter to Cranfield, in 1914, Randall Davies, The greatest house at Chelsey [1]
      My very good L , A long and wastyng diseas in the s hath disarmed me to fight with a cold wynter.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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wynter

  1. Alternative form of winter

Etymology 2

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Noun

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wynter

  1. Alternative form of viniter

Vilamovian

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wynter

Etymology

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From Old High German wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wynter m

  1. winter