A delayed answer: Wikipedia "Oude Nederlandse maandnamen"
And on Fryskednis blog: TWILIF ~ twelve: a special number
A delayed answer: Wikipedia "Oude Nederlandse maandnamen"
It's a good question, but it's not easy to distribute the names given in OL over these 6 periods. Six periods may have been even older and could have still be used next to the 12 periods system. OL demonstrates that various names may have been used at the same time by the same people. I did not even know the English word 'monad'! It's just as close to MÔNATH as 'month'. (Must also be the root of 'money') At least deserves a footnote to the translation.Bjorn_Steinthorsson wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 19:40 (...) why do we assume 12 months? (...)
Month might just as well be related to monad? Like unit? The wheel has 6 spokes.
(...) a beginning, middle and end. The solstices and equinoxes.
1 period of solstice
2 movement from solstice to equinox
3 equinox to solstice
4 period of solstice
5 movement solstice to equinox
6 movement equinox to solstice
Not only 13 months, but also cycles of 4, 13, 20 and 260 days. I find that very useful too and have used it (for almost 20 years now) next to the regular calendar.
I think it's from KJASAR (lit.: chooser), albeit not in the specific meaning in which it is used in OL.