Pauni
English
proper-noun
Definitions
- The tenth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Shemu. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Pauni has been in roughly June.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παῦνι derived from Egyptian pꜣ-n-jnt (the one of the wadi).
Origin
Egyptian
pꜣ-n-jnt
Gloss
the one of the wadi