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Re: [romconlang] Re: Month names



For whatever it might be worth, I found this list of Arabic month names "possibly derived from N.A. VL". I don't know where I found this, but 
thought it might be of interest.

yana:'ir
fibra:'ir
ma:ris (variant reading ma:rs or mars)
'abri:l
ma:yu:
yu:niyo: (var: yu:niya)
yu:liyo: (var: yu:liya)
'a*gh*usTus
sabtambir
'okto:bir
nu:fimbir (var: novembir)
disimbir (var: disambir / disembir)

Padraic

--- On Sun, 3/11/12, davidjohnmccann <old_astrologer@hidden.email> wrote:

From: davidjohnmccann <old_astrologer@hidden.email>
Subject: [romconlang] Re: Month names
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March
 11, 2012, 2:01 PM
















 



  


    
      
      
      



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 /dzambaž/, 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?