• datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      As a Scandinavian who wasn’t familiar with Finish month names… Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.

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        Finnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.

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        1 year ago

        It was basically a month when doing slash-and-burn farming slashing and burning happened. Which seems to be August among others today.

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      1 year ago

      I’m no farmer, but shouldn’t Planting Seed Month and Plowing Month be swapped? Seems like an ill-advised order of doing things.

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      But if you make it thru death month you get to experience Christmas cheer! It’s even colder but pretty lights!!!