Juni

Forms

Juni m (genitive Junis or Juni, plural Junis)^[1] In the 16th and 17th centuries the name was still written with the Latin genitive ending, as junii, and later as juny, which Goethe uses.^[2] The Latin nominative Junius was also used, as by Hölty.^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin Iūnius (“(month) of Juno”), the name of the Roman month consecrated to the goddess Iūnō (“Juno”), queen of the gods and wife of Jupiter.^[3][4][5] The modern form developed from the Latin genitive Iūniī, which stood before dates in documents.^[4][6][7] The same Latin name gave Dutch juni, English June, French juin and Swedish juni.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The Latin name junius is found in German texts from the 8th century, and the German form from the 16th century, meaning the sixth month of the year.^[3][8] In Early New High German all records still have Latin endings.^[9]

Semantic evolution

The Latin name spread in the 16th century, first in the language of the chanceries, and replaced the older German names of the month, such as Brachmonat (the month of ploughing the fallow) and Heumonat.^[4][7][10] The form Juni became established in the 18th century.^[4] The German name was borrowed into Estonian as juuni and into Hebrew.^[1][11]

Timeline

• 8th century – The Latin month name junius appears in German texts.^[3][8]
• 16th century – The name, still written junii, replaces Brachmonat in the chanceries.^[4][2]
• 18th century – The form Juni becomes established.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. June, the sixth month of the year.^[6][1]

Related words

• Juli
• English June

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm (1854–1961), Deutsches Wörterbuch, 16 vols. in 32, Leipzig: Hirzel; digital: Wörterbuchnetz, Trier Center for Digital Humanities, p. 10, 2399
3. ^ a b c d Kluge, Friedrich; Seebold, Elmar (2011), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 25th ed., Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, p. 459
4. ^ a b c d e f Pfeifer, Wolfgang, et al. (1993), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 2nd ed., Berlin: Akademie-Verlag; digital revised version in the DWDS, dwds.de
5. ^ Wahrig-Burfeind, Renate, ed., Wahrig Herkunftswörterbuch, Gütersloh / München: Wissen Media Verlag; online edition at wissen.de
6. ^ a b Duden. Das große Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache in zehn Bänden (1999), 3rd ed., Mannheim: Dudenverlag
7. ^ a b Duden. Das Herkunftswörterbuch: Etymologie der deutschen Sprache (2014), 5th ed., Duden vol. 7, Berlin / Mannheim / Zürich: Dudenverlag, p. 418
8. ^ a b Wiktionary, das freie Wörterbuch (German Wiktionary), de.wiktionary.org
9. ^ Anderson, Robert R.; Goebel, Ulrich; Reichmann, Oskar, eds. (1989–), Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, Berlin / New York: De Gruyter; FWB-online, fwb-online.de
10. ^ Paul, Hermann (2002), Deutsches Wörterbuch: Bedeutungsgeschichte und Aufbau unseres Wortschatzes, 10th ed., ed. Helmut Henne, Heidrun Kämper and Georg Objartel, Tübingen: Niemeyer
11. ^ Lehnwortportal Deutsch (2012–), Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, lwp.ids-mannheim.de