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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder.
Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs
Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ
Old English mōnaþ
Middle English mon(e)th
English month

    From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon.

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    Noun

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    month (plural months or (UK colloquial) month)

    1. A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
      July is my favourite month.
      • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
        Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
    3. A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
      Alternative forms: mo, mo., mon, mons, m, M (symbols)
      Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
      Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
      We went on holiday for two months.
      • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
        Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
      • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
        With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
      • 2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN‎[1]:
        The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.
    4. (obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
        Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

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    Gregorian calendar monthsedit
    Hebrew calendar monthsedit
    Islamic calendar monthsedit

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    Noun

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    month

    1. alternative form of moneth
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