Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

The text includes a Latin paragraph for each month, and this Latin (not French) has an effect on the way the month names are used in the vernacular parts. For example, the ablative form of "September" is "Septembre". So when you want to say "in September" in Latin, you use the ablative form: "in Septembre". 

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So long story short: this has nothing to do with French, but it's rather standard scribal showboating with Latin phrases. In the VM, however, we see what must be nominative cases, making French influence the most likely option.

Aha, that would explain that!

Speaking of all over the place.. at some point we might have to discuss german spelling convention in general. There basically isn't any. It's horribly inconsistent, even for a single scribe. We're looking for a specific spelling variant for these, and we tend to assume that the spelling genuinely represents how they said the words or represents a spelling tradition, but the more that I see these month names the more I doubt that. 

There are plenty of instances with e <-> i (both abril and abrel)
The word for month might as well be "mənət" because correct usage for o's, a's, and e's seems to have been optional. I don't understand how a single person can write monad, manad, manet, monod, monet, monot, mont, manot and not realise it's different each time. Maybe some I could see as interchangeable depending on accent (manet/manat), but (manod/monad)? Pick a lane!