Where does “year” come from?

Year comes from Middle English yere, from Old English ġēar, from Proto-Germanic jērą, from Proto-Indo-European yōro-, ultimately from the root yeh₁r-.

year (English): A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to...

Definitions

  1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to...

Ancestry of “year”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishyeeryear
2Old Englishġēaryear
3Proto-West Germanicjāryear
4Proto-Germanicjērąyear; name of the J-rune
5Proto-Indo-Europeanyeh₁r-year

Words derived from “year”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European yeh₁r- →