Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

On 13 May 02, at 16:37, Danny Wier wrote:

> This is more a concultural item than a conlang, but the conlang part
> obviously is what nomenclature to use for days, months, years and
> any other calendary measurement of time.
Well, MFCL is Verdurian. Instead of repeating what Mark has said about
its days and months, I'll just point you to
http://www.zompist.com/refs.htm#time .

Basically, seven days in a week (incidentally, "week" is "hepdën" < hep
"seven" + dën "day"), mostly named after gods, though the names are
worn down a little so that the relationship is not immediately obvious.
And twelve 27- or 28-day months, mostly with names related more or less
to events happening in that month (reminds me a bit of old German month
names); the year has 328 days except in leap years.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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