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English
Etymology
From hive + -er.
Noun
hiver (plural hivers)
- One who collects bees into a hive.
1820, A. B. Herbert, A. P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Of Bees, page 516:The hiver must have his face and hands defended, as above-mentioned, and accompanied by a person holding a chafing-dish, with a coal fire, covered with moist peat, to make the greater smoke […]
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum (tempus) (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.
Pronunciation
Noun
hiver m (plural hivers)
- winter
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
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Further reading
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English hayfre, from Old English hēahfore.
Pronunciation
Noun
hiver
- heifer
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46