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Re: Month names




Don't forget that some names were different in colloquial Latin: Febrarius, Aprilius, Agustus.

Some Latinisation is possible. In French, you have the regular "août" but the loan "octobre" for earlier "oiteuvre". In Liburnese, I went for radical change: jambarh /dzamba?/, fibrarh, marț /marts/, abrilh, maj, jynh /dzɨɲ/, jylh, agust, sifțàmbri, uchùbri, nuvèmbri, dighàmbri /diǰambri/.

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...> wrote:
>
> I'm finding that the earliest stages of my lang are seeing the VL names
> evolve quite considerably, even though the sound change rules are quite
> modest and not too far away from the western Romance changes:
> By the time I've added another 1000 years' worth of extra changes they are
> going to be extremely different indeed. I'd like them to be different, but
> not so different they don't slot in neatly with the closely related Romance
> languages *here.  This is why I'm pondering if some of the forms *here had
> been re-borrowed later as they are pretty conservative.  Or a preserving
> influence from ecclesiastical Latin maybe?