From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 37370
Date: 2005-04-25
> Daniel J. Milton wrote:********
> >> - there is in Rom. the old name for Januar which is "Gherar"; if
> > one
> >> will insiste the Gherar is derived from "Januarius" one should look
> >> for something better to do. If one consider Januar & Gerar do not
> >> have anything to do with each other, then one is wrong in this
> >> assumtion.
> >>
> >> Alex
> > *******
> > I'm unfamiliar with Gherar, and can't find anything on my bookshelf
> > or on the Web. What's your source, Alex?
>
>
> It happens I have been growing up in a peasantly area where the people
> even today use these names. Of course this is not enough for someone
> who learned to verify the sources thus you need something oficialy
> recognised. Go please to this adress which belongs to the Rom. Ortodox
> Church and they have all them there:
>
> http://www.sfantacruce.org/Calendar-Ortodox.htm
>
> Maybe of interest should be the etimology of the "new" names aka via
> which
> language entered these the Rom. Lang. The etymologies of the old names
> are
> maybe of more interest but I don't touch them now .
>
>
> Gerar - Ianuarie ( < Slavic ijanuarij)
> Fãurar - Februarie ( < Latin februarius)
> Mãrtsishor - Martie ( < Slavic martiI )
> Prier - Aprilie ( < Slavic aprilI)
> Florar - Mai ( < Slavic maI)
> Cireshar - Iunie ( < Slavic IjunI)
> Cuptor - Iulie ( < Slavic IjulI)
> Gustar - August ( < Latin augustus)
> Rãpciune - Septembrie ( < NeoGreek septemvrios)
> Brumãrel - Octombrie ( < Slavic oktovrii )
> Brumar - Noiembrie ( < Slavic nojenbrI, nojenvri)
> Undrea - Decembrie ( < Latin decembris)
>
>
> Alex
>