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Months of the year are named in the similar spirit in Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian and probably other Slavic languages. Edit: I couldn't find a good definitiv
by lxe 7y ago
Months of the year are named in the similar spirit in Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian and probably other Slavic languages.
Edit: I couldn't find a good definitive source of etymology/roots etc, so here's a rough sheet of what was able to scrape from the web as well as my own knowledge/interpretation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT8PGYX8c46NyR3NEyRUH--PnKzCoKNtRFPVSWkbdn_tZUMuYsg7idAiLJv4nYysyhy9Htec2bQgF_C/pubhtml https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT8PGYX8c46N...
- mci 7y agoFYI чэрвень comes from the Slavic name of Polish cochineal, an insect harvested in June and used to produce red dye until Mexican cochineal pushed it out of the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cochineal#Linguistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cochineal#Linguistics