Where does “wintervakantie” come from?

wintervakantie (Dutch) comes from Dutch winter, from Middle Dutch winter, from Old Dutch winter, from Proto-Germanic wintruz — winter.

wintervakantie (Dutch): winter holiday

Definitions

  1. winter holiday

Ancestry of “wintervakantie”, step by step

wintervakantie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch winter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchwinterwinter
2Middle Dutchwinterwinter
3Old Dutchwinterwinter
4Proto-Germanicwintruzwinter

via Dutch vakantie

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DutchvakantieA holiday, vacation; An easy, careless time
2Middle Dutchvacantie—
3Medieval Latinvacantialeisure; An empty place; nominative neuter plural...
Every word from Proto-Germanic wintruz →