ardĕmond

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German, from harde (“hard, fierce”) + mond (“month”), compare German Low German hardemond (“January”, Westphalian dialect).

Noun

ardĕmond m

  1. December (twelfth month in the Gregorian calendar, which has 31 days)
    Synonym: tribnĕ mond

References
  • Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński; Kazimierz Polański (1962), “ardĕmond”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 1: A — Ďüzd, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 20
  • Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “ardĕmond”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
  • Reinhold Olesch (1962), “Ardemond”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 7
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