Wintry
/ˈwɪn.tri/noun
Relating to winter; cold, bleak, or characteristic of winter.
Did you know?Wintry comes from Old English winter, and that ancient Germanic root is so old that it also gave us words like “winter” across the family of Germanic languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wed-
“to wet, water”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*wintruz
“winter”
Old English
OE
winter
“winter; a year”
Old English
OE
wintrig
“winter-like, wintry”
Middle English
ME
wintery / wintry
“of or like winter”
Modern English
English
wintry
“cold or characteristic of winter”