χέω + μόνιμος
Word
Validation
Yes
Word-form
χειμών
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
kheimōn
English translation (word)
winter
Transliteration (Etymon)
kheō + monimos
English translation (etymon)
to pour + stable
Century
5 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etymologicum (excerpta e cod. regio 1610), p. 184
Ed.
G.H.K. Koës, Orionis Thebani etymologicon (ed. F.G. Sturz), Leipzig: Weigel, 1820 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973): 173-184
Quotation
Χειμών· διὰ τὸ χέειν μονίμως ἐπὶ μῆνας εʹ ἢ ϛʹ
Translation (En)
Kheimōn "winter": because it rains (kheein) regularly (monimōs) in the fifth and sixth months
Parallels
Orion, Etymologicum (excerpta e cod. Vat. gr. 1456) (idem); Etym. Gudianum, khi, p. 564 (Χειμὼν, διὰ τὸ χέεσθαι ὁμωνύμως, ἤγουν ἐπὶ μῆνας πέντε ἢ ἕξ [ὁμωνύμως is a mistake for μονίμως, due to iotacism])
Modern etymology
Inherited name of the winter, belongs with χιών "snow". PIE *g̑hhim-, with cognates in most IE languages (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has χειμώνας "winter"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology in which the second syllable is assumed to go back to the adjective μόνιμος "stable". As usual, only the beginning of the word is kept