The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχειμαίνω“to be wintry”
- French · borrowed fromisochimène
- English todayisochimenal
From French isochimène, from iso- + Ancient Greek χειμαίνω (kheimaínō, “to be wintry”), from χεῖμα (kheîma, “winter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.