Farewell To Winter

GEAMHRADH, GEAMRADH, Winter personified. gean, obs.

Woman, the Cailleach bheurr. EIr. gemred; OIr. gaimred.
From gam, chaste, cold, unproductive, the Winter Hag (or Gamekeeper). Cy., gaem, Br. goam, Skr. hima, cold, ON hrym, frosted, geamnaidh, chaste, virginal, cold. The word is allied with gaoth, the wind, the root being gai, driven. Confers with the Gaelic vei, the wind and with the Old Norse god Ve, whose name is a synonym for wind. A common Gaelic form of this god is Ghei which corresponds with the English ghost. Radh, saying, speaking, bringing about.
Gamanrad, the “stirk-folk of Connaught.” Rad is a collective, feminine when in use in the last sense. The Bry. Stem may be giamo, winter; Lat. hiems. In the Celtic Calender this was the mid-winter month of Giamonios,twenty-nine days in length (roughly December) following Cutios and followed by Simivionnios.