Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wintruz

Etymology
. Several possibilities have been proposed, although none are convincing:
 * Relation to 🇨🇬, whence also 🇨🇬.
 * Relation to 🇨🇬.

The first theory involves an analysis of 🇨🇬 continuing rather than, while there is little semantic evidence for the second theory.

Noun

 * 1)  winter
 * 2)  year as a measure of time
 * 1)  year as a measure of time

Inflection
Most descendants (in particular Gothic) show a u-stem paradigm:

However, Old Norse shows a consonant stem paradigm:

If that is indeed the original paradigm, it may have arisen as follows: The nominative and vocative singular would have come from older and, respectively, into which an epenthetic u had been inserted before a syllabic sonorant, as is usual in Germanic. This formed and. The -ur- was then later metathesized into a form resembling a u-stem nominative (likely based on the accusative forms).