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Months in Basque

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➡ In today's lesson you will learn how to write and pronounce the 12 months of the year in the Basque language.

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Months of the year in Basque

Months	Basque (Hilabeteak)	Comments
January	Urtarrila	From Ur (water) and Urtar (aquatic), would Urtarrila be the month of water? You will learn more about this in an upcoming climate lesson.
February	Otsaila	From Otso (wolf), therefore month of the wolf
March	Martxoa	The etymologically Basque version is to be compared to Epaitu (mown) and Epaile (mower), a reference to the month of pruning ... (trees and plants).
	edo Epaila
April	Apirila	Jorrail is to be compared to Jorratu (weeded), so month of weeding ... to your tools and to the weeds!
	edo Jorraila
May	Maiatza	Loreil de Lore (flower), therefore flower month
	edo Loreila
June	Ekaina	Probably comes from Eguzki or the souletin Eki (sun), and Gain (top). It is indeed the month of the summer solstice.
July	Uztaila	from Uzta (harvest, harvest), therefore harvest month
August	Agorrila	From Agor (dry), therefore drought month
	edo Abuztua
September	Iraila	To be compared to Iratze (fern), so fern month
October	Urria	To be compared with Urri (rare, insufficient), therefore probably months of the scarcity ... of products of nature.
November	Azaroa	To be compared with Hazi (seed) and Aro (weather ... it is), therefore seed period
December	Abendua	Abendu + aro, Advent period
	edo Lotazilla	Lotazil is to be compared with Lotu (attached, but also ... taken root) and hazi (seed) or hozitu (germinated), so germination month

Source

http://www.bascorama.com/BASQUE_COURS/Lecons/34_Date.htm

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