The story
- Proto-Indo-European*mreǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*mréǵʰus
- Proto-Italic*breɣʷis
- Latinbrevis
- Latinbrūma
- Old Frenchbrume
- Frenchbrume
- English todaybrume
Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Words from the same roots
Latinbrūma all →
brumationbrumous
Proto-Indo-European*mréǵʰus all →
briefbramerryborzoibrumous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.