28-06-2026, 05:47 PM
I'm far from an expert in MHG grammar and I would not have expected 'Abrille' as a standalone title. But yeah, I guess everything is possible. The weak-strong boundary isn't that firm. All those april variants look legit to me in normal German and your declination appears correct to me. No need to treat it as Latin, except 'Aprilis'
Also keep in mind that Bavarian was and is an extremely 'lazy' language with a sloppy and often minimal pronunciation. 'Septembre' and 'September' would be pronounced similarly because the 'e' is largely silent .This would lead to something like 'Sebdemba' in both cases. All april variants would end up like abr - followed by some stretched ü/ö like sound (I'm not good with IPA). The 'Aberel'- versions look more fancy, sophisticated, and the -en endings a bit poetic. We can question why the scribe chose several variants in the same text, but as we all know writing wasn't standardized so why not?
The same goes for your 'monat' variants, though some are pretty weird. The reader would (probably) have understood from context..
I'm afraid there's not much hope to further narrow down spelling variants to specific places or time-frames as I had hoped. Since we have a lot of latinized month name variants from South German speaking regions - do you think the Picard hypothesis is obsolete?
Also keep in mind that Bavarian was and is an extremely 'lazy' language with a sloppy and often minimal pronunciation. 'Septembre' and 'September' would be pronounced similarly because the 'e' is largely silent .This would lead to something like 'Sebdemba' in both cases. All april variants would end up like abr - followed by some stretched ü/ö like sound (I'm not good with IPA). The 'Aberel'- versions look more fancy, sophisticated, and the -en endings a bit poetic. We can question why the scribe chose several variants in the same text, but as we all know writing wasn't standardized so why not?
The same goes for your 'monat' variants, though some are pretty weird. The reader would (probably) have understood from context..
I'm afraid there's not much hope to further narrow down spelling variants to specific places or time-frames as I had hoped. Since we have a lot of latinized month name variants from South German speaking regions - do you think the Picard hypothesis is obsolete?