Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

A large amount of german entries have been added, many onto the main spreadsheet.

There were a decent amount of abrill, abrell, and also aberel. There was also an "abpril". Examples with 'b' in april are overwhelmingly from southern germany.

For "aberel" and "abrell", examples are commonly found in manuscripts designated as a "schwäbisch" dialect or from areas in Swabia. 
For "abrill", it tends to be slightly further east on average: in bavaria, but also going into the munich/salzburg area and austria. 

Each of the 'b' aprils also appear to commonly match with sequences with "brachet/brachat" for the month of june. 

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There was an entry that used both ougst/ögst, which now gives some justification for considering augst/ougst/ögst to all be different spellings for the same vernacular. 

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1506AD,  Germany S (Constance?)

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Most languages avoid the "vg" sound, difficult to pronounce.

No problem with "avgust" in the Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro).

Are we sure the 'w' from those times represented a 'v' or 'f', instead of a 'u' or 'wuh'? 
I genuinely don't know. Obviously in modern german and dutch that is the case. I'm almost certain that I saw a couple of examples when a w and ü were interchanged, but I can't find them right now. I'll try to locate them. 

There was an "awgst" (at least i think its awgst), where the writer also used "augst'n" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Edit: Most of the new entries were found from a search on Handschriften Portal, set to german language and keyword "kalender": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.