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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Finnish:

oak month (or central month if you don't use current meaning of the word)

pearl month

ground month

clearing the forest of trees for field month

planting seed month

summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)

hay harvesting month

grain harvesting month

autumn month

muddy month

death month

yule month

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"clearing the forest of trees for field month"

Favorite month for Amazon forest

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

It was basically a month when doing slash-and-burn farming slashing and burning happened. Which seems to be August among others today.

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