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The Names of the Months in Europe: Agricultural and Meteorological influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2007

JEAN-PAUL POIRIER
JEAN-PAUL POIRIER
Affiliation:
18 Place des Vosges, Paris 75004, France. E-mail: jean-paul.poirier@noos.fr
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Abstract

The ancient Anglo-Saxon and Germanic month names related to agricultural activities and meteorology have left traces in names still used in Germany, Holland and Denmark in the 19th century. Nowadays, in a number of East European languages (Croatian, Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Byelorussian, Lithuanian, Finnish) the names of the months still refer to seasonal agricultural labours or meteorological conditions.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , May 2007 , pp. 199 - 207
Copyright
Academia Europaea 2007

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