geamhradh

winter, Irish geimhreadh, Early Irish gemred, Old Irish gaimred, Old Welsh gaem, Welsh gauaf, Cornish goyf, Breton goam, Middle Breton gouaff: *gimo- (for Gadelic), *gaiamo-, *gaimo- (for Brittonic, Stokes); Indo-European ghim, gheim, ghiem; Sanskrit himá, cold, Zend zima, winter; Church Slavonic zima; Greek $$Gheimw/n; Latin hiems. The Old Irish gam, for gem, has its vowel influenced by the analogy of samh of samhradh (Thurneysen). Thurneysen now suggests Celt. *giamo; cf. Gaulish Giamillus.