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Re: The Months of Neroneus, Germanicus, and Claudius



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> 
wrote:
>
> --- habarakhe4 <Anthony.Miles@...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I was reading Tacitus, and I noted that under
> > Nero, the months of April, May, and June were 
> > called Neroneus [ne:'ro:neus] or less likely
> > [ne:ro:'ne:us], Germanicus [germa:'ni:kus], and
> > 
> > Claudius [klaudius]. I wonder if the
> > Fortunatians had kept this and what they would
> > look like 
> > in 2006. Then I wondered about the languages of
> > the rest of you.
> > 
> > Neroneus > Nèron [n_dEron]
> > Germanicus > Zarmanig [zarmanig]
> > Claudius >  Crauzh [kroZ]
> > 
> > Should I keep these months in the FIU?
> > What about y'all's versions?
> 
> IB doesn't retain them, if they were ever
> promulgated. The names obviously weren't taken
> very seriously *here*.

Which is precisely why I thought they ought to be considered 
seriously elsewhere in the Multiverse. The Fortunate Islands used the 
extra Claudian letters until the medieval Viking conquest.

> 
> Claude, as a Dumnonian name, is Llouydde; the
> Divine Claudius, the name of the emperor, is
> Clauedio. The others don't survive, though I
> suppose might be Neró and Hiermaneck or
> Giermaneck. Chermá (descended from germanus)
> survives as a word for close friend, relative or
> fellow Dumnonian.
> 
> Padraic.
> 
> 
> She stuck the knife in the baby's head,
> Weela weela wallia;
> The more she stabbed it, the more it bled,
> Down by the river Sallia. 
> 
> Three big knocks came a-knocking at the door,
> Weela weela wallia;
> Two policeman and a man,
> Down by the river Sallia.
> 
>    -Childe Ballad #20, The Cruel Mother
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