Month names collection / metastudy

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Ulrichs von Lichtenstein Frauendienst
13th Century (1255AD?)
Austria, Styria, Judenberg? 
aberillen
mayen

The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of the work has an interesting bit of description: 
"abrillen, aberillen: gen. of aberille (usually aberelle): April, the unsettled month"

Judenburg, city in Styria

I find this text very hard to read, much harder than 15th century texts. Much more ancient. I'd say 'Als aberillen wetter vert ir wille' translates to Als Aprilwetter wird ihr Wille. Her will / temper becomes like April weather (changeable / unpredictable).

The abrillen- / aberillen- is a poetic form used for composite words, especially in Bavarian dialects. Modern German would be Aprilwetter. The root being aberil, one would not use aberil weter because that combination does not have a good flow. Hence the -en is added, as in many modern composite words. But then it's plur. not gen. Katzenfutter - cat food. Frauenarzt - gycecologist.

The only one that comes to my mind involving months is the flower Märzenbecher (wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
literally March-cup (März+Becher).

I disagree that the root form would be aberille / aberelle outside of a poetic addition of -e. The root to be used for an isolated word as a label must be ab(e)ril(l) / or aberell.
aberille / aberelle is Dativ-e
Im aberille ist das Wetter wechselhaft

aberillen / aberellen is either Dativ -en
Zu aberillen kann das Wetter wechselhaft sein

or Genitiv -en
Des aberillen Wetter ist wechselhaft
Vom mertzen / aberillen / mayen

This also works for composite words
Mertzen-
Abrillen-
Mayen-

German is very complex, especially if you include poetic forms. Hence the month names may look quite different inside a text compared to standalone labels.