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