1, _January_:--bare month (the bare, naked month), *hard month, *winter month, ice month, *wolf month, threshing month, month of calves, ‘Great Horn’, *_Volborn_, _Lasmaend_, _Laumonat_ (the last three unexplained). 2, _February_:--last winter month, wood month, fox month, ‘Little Horn’, _Hornung_, *_Volborn_, _Rebmaend_, _Redmaend_, _Selle(maend)_, _Sporkel_, _Sprokkelmaend_. 3, _March_:--(first) ploughing month, drying month, *spring month, sowing month, pruning month, vernal month, spring. 4, _April_:--second ploughing month, *spring month, grass month, shepherds’ month, cuckoo month, the rough month (_Rûmaend_). 5, _May_:--ass month, month of joy, month of flowers, bean month. 6, _June_:--fallow month, *dog month, rose month, pasture month, _Lusemaend_ (_Luse_ probably = modern German _Schildlaus_, ‘cochineal’), summer month, fallow. 7, _July_:--(first) *_Augst_, hay month, *dog month; _Heuet_ (hay-harvest), *_Arne_ (harvest), *cutting (i. e. of the hay). 8, _August_:--(second) *_Augst_, harvest month, _Arnemaend_, cutting month, _Kochmaend_, month of fruit, _Bîsmaend_ (when the cattle, tormented by the heat and the flies, run about (_biset_) the fields as if mad), *_Arne_, *cutting. 9, _September_:--second _Augst_, _Augstin_, cutting of oats, (*first) *autumn month, *sowing month, spelt month, barley month, boar month, *_Fulmaend_, _Laeset_, _Hanfluchet_, bean-harvest, first autumn, over-autumn, autumn sowing. 10, _October_:--(*first or *second) *autumn month, first winter month, *sowing month, *slaughtering month, *_Folmaend_, _Aarzelmaend_ (since the year turns back), (second) autumn, *_Laupreisi_ (leaf-fall). 11, _November_:--(*second or third) *autumn month, *winter month, _Laubryszmaend_, leaf month, month of rime, month of winds, month of dirt, *hard month, *slaughtering month, _Smeermaend_, *full month, *wolf month, acorn month, *_Laupreisi_. 12, _December_:--fourth autumn month, (second) *winter month, *hard month, *slaughtering month, month of bacon, *wolf month, hare month, second winter. There are also many names borrowed from feasts and saints’ days, such as (New) Year month and the synonymous _Kalemaend_ = Calends month (January), _Fassnachtmaend_ or _Olle Wiwermaend_ (February), _Klibelmaend_ (Conception of the Virgin, March), Holy Month or Christ Month. The Latin names March, April, May, and August have also become very popular; the last-named has for special reasons been included in the above list[995].