ᎪᎳ
gola/ɡőːlã́/
The Cherokee word for winter is ᎪᎳ (gola).
ᎪᎳ is a noun used to refer to the fourth season, which is characterized by short days and the lowest temperatures.
Meaning: fourth season, marked by short days and the lowest temperatures (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
The romanization is gola. The IPA pronunciation is /ɡőːlã́/.
Did you know?
- In the Cherokee syllabary, the characters for ᎪᎳ are designed as symbols that represent entire syllables rather than single letters.
- In Cherokee culture, the winter season is historically associated with the time for storytelling, as it was the period when people gathered indoors to pass on ancestral knowledge.
- Because Cherokee is polysynthetic, a single word containing ᎪᎳ can express a whole sentence like 'it is wintering' or 'the winter is happening'.
Example sentences for Cherokee are not verified yet.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “winter” translations and entries ᎪᎳ, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
