month: [OE] In ancient times the passing of time was recorded by noting the revolutions of the moon. Consequently prehistoric Indo-European had a single word, *mēnes-, which denoted both ‘moon’ and ‘month’. The Romance languages retain it only for ‘month’: Latin mēnsis (source of English menstrual) has given French mois, Italian mese, and Spanish mes. The Germanic languages, however, have kept both, distinguishing them by different forms. In the case of ‘month’, the Germanic word was *mǣnōth, which has differentiated into German monat, Dutch maand, Swedish månad, Danish maaned, and English month. => menstrual, moon
Old English monað, from Proto-Germanic *menoth- (cognates: Old Saxon manoth, Old Frisian monath, Middle Dutch manet, Dutch maand, Old High German manod, German Monat, Old Norse manaðr, Gothic menoþs "month"), related to *menon- "moon" (see moon (n.); the month was calculated from lunar phases). Its cognates mean only "month" in the Romance languages, but in Germanic generally continue to do double duty. Phrase a month of Sundays "a very long time" is from 1832 (roughly 7 and a half months, but never used literally).
双语例句
1. One month before the deadline we see the hollowness of these promises.
离最后期限只有一个月时，我们认识到了这些许诺都是空头支票。
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2. The three parties will meet next month to work out remaining differences.
三方将在下个月会面，以解决余下的分歧。
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3. He won last month's presidential election by a landslide.
他以压倒性多数赢得上月的总统选举。
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4. The first snow came a month earlier than usual.
第一场雪比往年提早了一个月。
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5. Ballpark estimates indicate a price tag of $90 million a month.
