ardĕmond

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German, from harde (“hard, fierce”) + mond (“month”), from Old Saxon hard + mānuth. 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

• Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “ardĕmond”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 20
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “ardĕmond”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Ardemond”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 7