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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (5 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] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finland would have a higher population if they would just get rid of Death Month.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

No, Finland becomes the Purge for a month, ensuring that only the strongest and craftiest Finns survive. If you see an old Finnish person, better respect them. They survived decades of annual battle royals.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a Scandinavian who wasn't familiar with Finish month names... Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Finnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.

[–] Jakylla 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"clearing the forest of trees for field month"

Favorite month for Amazon forest

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm no farmer, but shouldn't Planting Seed Month and Plowing Month be swapped? Seems like an ill-advised order of doing things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But if you make it thru death month you get to experience Christmas cheer! It's even colder but pretty lights!!!