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From: mikulska@faust.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
Subject: Germanic (was: Polish) month names
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In article <3836am$jur@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> knappen@vkpmzd.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE writes:
>
>No there were germanic month names, and they are attested for old high german
>and middle high german. However, the official scribes used the latinate ones
>and their practice took over. I think, the Nazis tried to revive those old
>names, but with no success. Unfortunately, I don't have a list of the old
>german month names at hand, the only one I remember by hart is Hornung for
>February.

So that's where Hornung is from!  This one survived into the late 18th C 
in Austria (at least Vienna):  Mozart used it in 1784 in the catalog of 
his works, but for other months he used "modern", latinate names.

Anybody know the other Germanic month names?

-Margaret Mikulska
mikulska@faust.princeton.edu

