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This week's theme, calendars, prompts me to ask a favourite question of mine to which hitherto I received no satisfying answer: What is the name of the person whose profession is to construct calendars. For example, people who make arrows are called fletchers, and those who make barrels are called coopers. Those who construct calendars well into the future require special skills, especially when designating days with moveable feasts to mark on the calendar. What is the name one gives to such people?
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calendarian, calendariographer, calendarist, calendographer (all recorded, but rare) calendar-maker
BTW, a heortologist studies the religious feasts and seasons
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Some of my favorite calendars are the Gaulish one from Coligny and the various Roman ones. Cavite, o lectores, nexus Vikipædianas!
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Cool picture of the Gaulish one--what an exciting find that must have been! What is Mid Samonios, please?
Whoa--I didn't know there was a VicipædiA!
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What is Mid Samonios?
From Wikipedia: "[T]he calendar year began with Samonios, which is usually assumed to correspond to Old Irish Samhain, giving an autumn start to the year. However, as Samon is Gaulish for summer (Lambert p.112), this assumed start is disputed."
From Lambert: La Langue Gauloise, p.111: Gaulish mid is 'month' (cf. Latin mensis, Greek μην (mēn), Breton miz, Irish mí, gen. mísa 'month').
So, it means "the month of Samnios".
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