month
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”).
Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.
Inflected forms:
form: months
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: month
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
plural
form: moneth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
pos: noun
examples: July is my favourite month.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
We went on holiday for two months.
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.
gloss: A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
obsolete
examples: Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.
Synonyms: month
Related words: calendar
:Category:Months
Appendix:Months of the Islamic year
Appendix:Months of the Chinese Year
Derived words: 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
month-long
monthlong
monthly
month mind
month of consecution
month of Sundays
monthsary
month's end
monthslong
months-long
month's mind
month to date
moon month
multimonth
never in a month of Sundays
nodical month
periodic month
person-month
pinch and a punch for the first of the month
Platonic month
R month
Roman month
run of month
sidereal month
six-month club
stellar month
synodic month
that time of the month
this day six months
time of the month
tropical month
twelvemonth
worm month
yestermonth
Yulemonth
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