Gothic Year/Season Words

[Michael Erwin]

My understanding was that Gothic 'athana' meant 'year.'

'Juleis' (?) would be a two-month season around November-December,  
and 'wintrus' would (presumably) be a(nother) two-month season around  
January-February, although the part can refer to the whole (as in  
modern English: '# winters old'). I figured that 'jer,' like  
'wintrus,' had referred to one season and (by extension) to the year,  
and had later displaced 'athana.'


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