haligmonaþ
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Old English
Etymology
From hāliġ + mōnaþ, lit. "holy month."
Pronunciation
Noun
hāliġmōnaþ m
- September
- 725, Bede, The Reckoning of Time, Ch. 15:
- ...September Haleg-monath...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Menologium in O. Cockayne's The Shrine, p. 124, ll. 28–31:
- On ðæm nigoþan mónþe on geáre biþ xxx daga se mónaþ hátte on léden septembris and on úre geþeóde háligmónaþ for ðon ðe úre yldran ðá ðá hí hǽðene wǽron on ðam mónþe hí guldon hiora deófolgeldum
- In the 9th month in a year there are 30 days. The month is called September in Latin and, in our language, Holy Month, because our forefathers—when they were pagan—sacrificed in that month to their idols.
- 725, Bede, The Reckoning of Time, Ch. 15:
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mōnaþ; æfterra ġēola (“January”), solmōnaþ (“Februrary”), hrēþmōnaþ (“March”), ēastermōnaþ (“April”), þrimilcemōnaþ (“May”), searmonaþ (“June”), æfterra līþa, Mǣdmōnaþ (“July”), wēodmōnaþ (“August”), hærfestmōnaþ, hāliġmōnaþ (“September”), winterfylleþ (“October”), blōtmōnaþ (“November”), ǣrra ġēola (“December”) (Category: ang:Months)