War, law & rule

January

January belongs to Janus, the two-faced Roman god of gates and beginnings. English first had it from Anglo-Norman as Janevere and later re-shaped it after the Latin; in North Africa the Roman name lives on as Yennayer, the Amazigh new year.

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From Latin to Spanish, Tagalog

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