Month names collection / metastudy

[Pierre Dumont Himself]

I wonder if some of these French attestations are misguided "spelling corrections"? Like they had dropped the "g" in speech but knew it was somewhere in there? With French, it's always hard to know what was actually pronounced.

Latin-like spellings were fairly common in the past: 

Doigt ("finger") and Vingt ("twenty") also have etymological 'g'. In vingt, the 'g' was added in the wrong position: the Latin words are digitus and viginti. If you search for "aougst", there are quite a few 16th-century examples. I have also come across one from the 15th century, in the name of a Breton river, which was also hypercorrected in Latin: the Out (Latin Ulda) became Aoust, Aougst, and Augusta in Latin.

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