More linguistic error on Jeopardy!

The answer: This season gets its name from Sanskrit for "half year".

The question: What is "summer"?

Sheesh.

Here's the etymology:

Etymology: Middle English sumer, somer, from Old English sumor; akin to Old Saxon, Old High German, & Old Norse sumar summer, Old Irish sam, Welsh haf, Avestan ham- summer, Sanskrit samā year, half year, season

Note the words "akin to". NOT "from".

That any native English word would come from Sanskrit is a notion that belongs to those who hail Sanskrit as some mystical "Mother of Languages" (by which they seem to mean "all languages" instead of some languages found in the Indian subcontinent, such as Bengali). Frankly, it's weird.

Summer is a pretty common Indo-European word, found from India to Ireland. That's cool enough, isn't it?