The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromhiemālis“pertaining to winter”
- English todayhiemal
Learned borrowing from Latin hiemālis (“pertaining to winter”), from hiems (“winter”). More at hibernate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hiemal
Today it means: Of or pertaining to winter, wintry. Full definition →
Latin hiemālis