Expert: Donald Rosenfeld - 2/14/2003

Question
Not sure if you're the right one to answer this, but do you know what the origins of the names of the four seasons are?

Answer
Hi Wes

Spring:

Middle English springen, from Old English springan. N., Middle English springe from Old English spring, wellspring.]

Summer:

[Middle English, beam, pack animal, from Anglo-Norman sumer, from Vulgar Latin *saumrius, from Late Latin sagmrius, pertaining to a packsaddle, packhorse, from sagma, packsaddle. See sumpter.]

Fall:

[Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan

Winter:

[Middle English, from Old English. See wed-1 in Indo-European Roots.]


http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/original_calendar.html

http://www.sassafrasgrove.org/dates.htm