In message <20060608152130.GC10477_at_ccil.org>, John Cowan writes:
>Rob Seaman 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.
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Received on Thu Jun 08 2006 - 13:56:36 PDT