wintertide

noun /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)taɪd/

1. wintertime

   archaic, literary

   Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.

Where it comes from

From Middle English wintertid, wyntertyde, from Old English winter + tid (“time”). By surface analysis, winter + -tide. Cognate to Dutch wintertijd (“winter time”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wintertide (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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