names of the months

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

I've used {kanbyma'i ce jaurbeima'i li'o} for months, but I've been having 
second thoughts about this. Those words would be better used for the times of 
year corresponding to zodiac signs. I don't know much about astrology, so I 
find it hard to remember which zodiac sign corresponds to which month.

The Gregorian calendar is a descendant of the Roman calendar, and Latin names 
are the most common names for the months, at least among languages with names 
of the months listed in Wiktionary. Non-IE languages using Latin names 
include Alabama, Arabic, Estonian, Filipino, Georgian, Hungarian, Livonian, 
Malaysian, Maltese, Maori, and Tatar. Naming months with numbers is mostly 
confined to East Asia. A common way of naming months is to describe the 
season (e.g. "listopad", which means "leaf-fall", is found in several Slavic 
languages), but as seasons are opposite for xorxes and me, that would not be 
appropriate. So I propose the following:

ianvari, frebuari, *martio, *prilio, *madjio, *djunio, *djulio, avgusto, 
septembero, oktobero, novmbero, decmbero.

The starred forms are valid, but vlatai thinks they are invalid because they 
differ by an apostrophe from a lujvo. For pre-Augustan versions we can use 
{kuintili} and {sektili} ({sekstili} is a meaningless lujvo).

Pierre