Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:


Tanakh preserves four of the Hebrew month names, in order:


אביב green ears of grain, also the first month of the year in which is found
Passover.


זו Hebrew name of second month


אתנים seventh month in which is found Yom Kippur


בול eighth month


All the others have been lost.


I think the loss of the Hebrew names for the months is one of the evidences
that the Jews who returned from Babylon had already adopted Aramaic as the
language of the market and hearth, and that Hebrew had already attained a
similar status as medieval Latin: no one learned it at his mother’s knee but
that it was the language of government, religion, high literature and
commerce.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:09 AM, James Christian
<jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Apart from Aviv is there actually any
> evidence of their ever being original Hebrew month names?
>
> James Christian
>
>