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Arabic ‘June’ (brutuyūn) and ‘July’ (istiriyūn) in Norman Sicily

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

JEREMY JOHNS
JEREMY JOHNS
Affiliation:
Oriental Institute, Oxford
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Abstract

In Arabic documents issued by the dīwān of the Norman kings of Sicily during the twelfth century, brutuyūn and istiriyūn mean, respectively, ‘June’ and ‘July’. The geographer al-Idrīsī, who completed the Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq in Palermo in 1154, also uses istiriyūn for ‘July’. These month-names are derived from Greek *Πρωτοϊούνης, literally ‘first June’, i.e. June, and *Ύστεροϊούνης, literally ‘second June’, i.e. July. The linguistic circumstances in which the coining may have occurred are discussed.

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Notes and Communications
Information
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 98 - 100
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© School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001

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