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month

noun
/mʌnθ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥sder. Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ Old English mōnaþ Middle English mon(e)th English month From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon.

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon, month”
  2. inherited from *mēnōþs✻ — “month”
  3. inherited from *mānōþ✻
  4. inherited from mōnaþ
  5. inherited from moneth

Definitions

  1. A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

    • July is my favourite month.

  2. A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

    • We went on holiday for two months.

  3. A woman's period

    A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

    • Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

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Derived

13th month, ber month, birth month, bissextile month, calendar month, draconic month, draconitic month, dump months, Eastermonth, ember months, fence month, flavor of the month, flavour of the month, gander month, halfmonth, honey-month, intermonth, intramonth, leap month, light month, lunar month, man-month, midmonth, month by month, monther, monthful, monthiversary, monthling, monthlong, month-long, monthly, month mind, month of consecution, month of Sundays, monthsary, month's end, months-long, monthslong, month's mind, month to date · +22 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at month. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at month. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at month

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA