Poul-Henning Kamp scripsit:
> >Old English had its own set of month names entirely unrelated to
> >the Latin ones: if they had survived, they would have been Afteryule,
> >Solmath 'mud-month', Rethe[math] 'rough-month', Astron [pl. of 'Easter'],
> >Thrimilch 'three-milking', Forelithe, Afterlithe, Wedmath 'weed-month',
> >Halimath 'holy-month', Winterfilth '-filling', Blotmath 'sacrifice-month',
> >Foreyule. At least some of these are obviously pre-Christian.
>
> They're practically all viking derived.
I think it more likely that the English and Norse forms have a
common proto-Germanic origin.
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Received on Thu Jun 08 2006 - 21:45:42 PDT