_Samhradh_, summer, according to old glossaries, is from obs. _samh_, the sun, and means the sun season or quarter. This corresponds with the English name, which is evidently a softened form of _sun-mer_. _Samh_ is now used to denote “the suffocating smell produced by excessive heat.”[51] In Tiree, it is the name given to the hazy heavy appearance of the Western ocean, and few expressions are more common than _samh chuain t-siar_, the oppressive feeling of which the uneasy sea on the west side of the island is productive. In the North Hebrides _samh_ means the ocean itself. A common description over the whole Highlands of an intolerable stench is _mharbhadh e na samhanaich_, _i.e._ it would kill the savage people living in caves near the ocean, as giants were fabled to do. _Fogharadh_, autumn, is likely connected with _fogh_, said to mean ease, hospitality, and _foghainn_, to suffice, with the same root idea of _abundance_. _Geamhradh_, winter; Lat. _hiems_, Gr. χεῖμα. No doubt _geamh_ is of the same origin as the Greek and Latin words, but it does not find its explanation in the Greek χεω, to pour. From its being found in _gèamhlag_, a crow-bar, _gèimheal_, a chain, _geamhtach_, short, stiff, and thick, there seems to have been a Gaelic root implying to bind, to be stiff, which gives a suitable derivation for the name of the season of frost and ice. _Mios_, a month, is supposed to be connected with _mias_, a round platter, from the moon’s round orb completing its circle within the month. Greek μήν, Eol. μεις, a month; Lat. _mensis_; Sanscr. _mâsas_, a month, _mâs_, the moon. These show that undoubtedly the origin of the word is connected with the moon. The names in the Greek, Latin, and Teutonic languages show that there was originally an _n_ in the word, and the Gaelic, as well as Sanscrit, bears testimony to the same fact, by the long vowel. It is a common thing in Hebrew for _n_ at the end of a syllable and in the middle of a word to be assimilated to an immediately succeeding consonant, and it is more likely it so disappeared in some languages than that it was assumed by others. Another Gaelic name for the moon, _ré_, is also used to denote a portion of time; _ri mo ré_, during my lifetime.