november

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁néwn̥
2. Proto-Italic*nown̥
3. Latindeceminflu.
4. Latinnovem
5. LatinNovember
6. Latinnovember
7. Old Frenchnovembre
8. Middle EnglishNovembre
9. English todayNovember

From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.

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