TONIGHT IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE!

[Igel]

12. And yet it's still in "Anglish."

"Winter solstice" is as anglo-centric as it is Russo-Centric.

And if you like the "tradition" of exonyms, so that all pale European-stock folk are "anglo" so Russians and Brits are functionally interchangeable, note that dongzhi in Mandarin means "winter solstice", with the word "winter" prominently featured in the compound.

Northern hemisphere cultures developed the sciences ahead of southern hemisphere cultures and coined phrases in their languages for use with their compatriots without due consideration of how everybody else would eventually consider them. (Silly them, valuing themselves over others.)

Like all those supremacist peoples around the world whose endonym, their word in their language for use with their fellow community members devolves to the word for "people" or "human." We are people, others are not. (Sort of like Greeks calling non-Greeks barbarians because they lacked real language and went around saying bar-bar. Like many a frat boy.)