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by Sharlin 29 days ago
Trivia: Finnish is one of the European languages with retained, original (rather than Latin-borrowed) names for months. July is heinäkuu, literally "hay moon" or "hay month", which demonstrates the prevalence and importance of haymaking work in the high summer in an agrarian society.
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Isn't June a little early for haymaking in Finland?
July was what I (and the article) talked about.
But the name of the month of June was said to mean haymaking in Finnish.
Both the article and the original comment are referencing July, not June.