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Finnish:
oak month (or central month if you don't use current meaning of the word)
pearl month
ground month
clearing the forest of trees for field month
planting seed month
summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)
hay harvesting month
grain harvesting month
autumn month
muddy month
death month
yule month
"clearing the forest of trees for field month"
Favorite month for Amazon forest
I just realized that about September-December, that's mindblowing and hilarious
the roman year started on march 1 so thats how they numbered months. English never caught up.
Better yet they only had 10 months, and the remaining 60ish days of the year were just 乁( •_• )ㄏ
Neither did other European languages
The Roman year originally started in March (the month of Mars) because that's when the war season started. January and February were at the end of the year and originally weren't named at all.
But at some point, the Romans had a problem with one of their politicians. He had a one year term. To get rid of him, they moved the new year to January. It was supposed to be temporary but somehow we're still living with the results of that lifehack.
Romans: having 10 months in a year 2000 years before the metric system.