Month names collection / metastudy

[Koen G]

Do keep bumping the thread, this is one of those I follow with great interest.


For the declension, I'm looking at the wiki: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Latin month names in MHG are usually masculine, but we need to figure out whether they treat it as a strong noun or a weak noun (this can shift).

Heiligenkreuz, Zisterzienserstift, Cod. 339
(in)dem abrellen --> weak, dative
(von) dem abrill/dem abryll  --> strong (?) dative. The one that writes abryll may be a different hand? It looks like this folio also has nominative "Abrilis".
dem abrell (60v) --> strong dative
des abryllen (28v) --> weak genitive

So what's going on here? Bernd or others might correct me on this, but what I feel is happening is that "Abril" is simultaneously seen as a loan word and a German word, and it shifts between strong and weak declension, engendering a whole range of options. 

This is complex, but for our practical purpose, the conclusion seems clear: whatever comes after the "l" is valid, so abrel, abrell, abrelle and abrellen are equivalent. Luckily, the noun case does not affect what comes before the "l", which is what we're interested in.