{"id":7940,"date":"2025-10-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:56:56","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-months-of-the-year-in-basque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2025\/10\/05\/basque-fact-of-the-week-months-of-the-year-in-basque\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: Months of the Year in Basque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the ancient Basques looked at the sky, they saw the same thing that other peoples did – stars, planets, comets, constellations – but they gave them different names. I have a brief list of some of those names<\/a> collected by Professor Jon Patrick. In trying to find a more complete and modern list, I bumped into an article, Astronomy and Basque Language<\/em> by Henrike Kn\u00f6rr, that delves into the Basque names for a number of astronomically related concepts. In particular, he gives a list of alternative Basque words for the months of the year. I find this fascinating. While Euskara is an ancient language, because it was only recently standardized<\/a>, a myriad of words exist for things that we might think of as only having one name in English. This gives an interesting view on the different ways that Basques looked at the world around them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Basque calendar cube that puts the calendar on a Rubik’s cube. You can play with a virtual version here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n