(04-02-2016, 08:41 PM)don of tallahassee Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The month names of Jung, July, Septembre are shown in a calendar starting at:
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Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
FYI, just a small detail, Don, but important if we're looking at spellings...
Many of the early Latin abbreviations in Carolingian and Merovingian documents were based on numbers (numbers 2, 3, 7, 9, etc.) and the one at the end of words that commonly stands for -us/-um was a 9 (not a "g", and is written the same way as it is in the VMS, but sometimes superscripted). Graduallly, In the middle ages, the 3 evolved to look more like a "z" (in some documents, the 7 also resembles a "z") and the 2 sometimes looks like the VMS "r".
When I saw your message, I was going to mention in this document it's probably
Jun9 (Junus) until I actually looked at the page and noticed it says Junii. The last "i" is extended (has a descender) in much the same way as a terminal-n sometimes has an descending tail. It's a flourish, so
June in this picture is spelled
Junii.
It would also be easy to mistake Junii and Julij for being written the same way because the last letter in Julij also looks like it has a tail, but it's not the same ending. July is written with "ij" (this evolved from "ii" with a flourished tail but became treated differently and in this manuscript is distinguished by the dots over the letters and probably by its sound). The "ii" became "ij" and then evolved into a ligature which became the shape we now recognize as the letter "y", until the "ij" almost completely disappeared (except in Dutch where they still have an "ij" combination).
Native English speakers have difficulty distinguishing ii from ij by sound (and can't pronounce ij very well) because the ij sound doesn't exist in English. The difference still exists in some Scandinavian words, as in the distinction between the"i" in "vise" (to show) and the "y" in "lys" (light).