Etymology

northeaster

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Today it means: An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually originate from the northeast. Full definition →

English easter ← Middle English north ← Old English norþ
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nér
  2. Proto-Indo-European*nŕ̥t(e)ros
  3. Proto-Germanic*nurþraz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*norþr
  5. Old Englishnorþ
  6. Middle Englishnorth
  7. Englishnorth
  8. Englisheaster
  9. English todaynortheaster

From north + easter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.