köken: Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاج (ḵarāj, “kharaj, land tax imposed on non-Muslims in Islamic countries”). The collection of such taxes traditionally occurred in the last month of autumn, which came to be associated with this time period.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *listopadъ Old Polish listopad Polish listopad Inherited from Old Polish listopad. By surface analysis, list + -o- + padać.
November (eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar)
köken: Formed from brumă + ar, or inherited from Vulgar Latin brūmārius (compare Friulian brumâr (“winter”); cf. also French Brumaire, Albanian brymës (“November”)), from Latin brūma (“winter, mist”) (compare Romanian brumă (“frost”)).
köken: By haplology from earlier *nove(m)-mēmbris (“of or pertaining to the ninth month”), from earlier *novem-mēnsris, from novem (“nine”) + *mēnsris, from mens- (“month”) + -ris. In the Roman calendar, the year began with Mārtius (“March”), and November was the ninth month of the year.
Novembri mense ac Decembri per sementem quantum appetit bos.
Etimoloji
marras (“death”) + kuu (“month”); the land 'dies' for winter in November (an alternative explanation ties this name to a belief that around this time, the souls of the dead roamed)