English
King Winter
King Winter may come from Norwegian Kong Vinter.
- NorwegianmodernKong Vinteruncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1852King Winter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- NorwegianmodernKong Vinteruncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1852King Winter
Earliest quotation: 1852, William Hurton, A Voyage from Leith to Lapland: Or: “[…] but here Midsummer and Winter were hand in…”
Every English word from Norwegian Kong Vinter
Today it means
name A personification of winter.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Norwegian Kong Vinter / King Winter