Re: The months and days of the week in Uusisuom
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 22:01 |
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> Speaking of bulls, that reminds me that the Czech name for
> October is r^i'jen, which means the time of rutting.
> (Which is what the bulls are doing there then.)
> Honest, I'm not making this up.
I can back him up on this. I think that the cognate of that is 'rujan' in
Croatian which means September. All the months are different, October for
example is 'listopad' which means falling of leaves. I think in Czech
that's November...?
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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