Mnemonics to help me remember the months in Finnish

[Varislintu]

Could anyone think of any?

Possibly by learning their meanings? At least that helps with some of them.

Or just learning by heart the twelve word sequence: tammi, helmi, maalis, huhti, touko, kesä, heinä, elo, syys, loka, marras, joulu.

[Levo]

I used the dictionary and it's very interesting and fun this way

Maalis, marras, huhti I couldn't find as syys either.
I guess syys is for syksy - autumn.
huhti maybe huhta? It would make sence with the meaning of the latter one.
marras - I found murros, pile of broken trees, which would be quite logical for the November in Hungary at least.

But now, what are the actual meanings of these four?

[Varislintu]

I used the dictionary and it's very interesting and fun this way

Maalis, marras, huhti I couldn't find as syys either.
I guess syys is for syksy - autumn.
huhti maybe huhta? It would make sence with the meaning of the latter one.
marras - I found murros, pile of broken trees, which would be quite logical for the November in Hungary at least.

But now, what are the actual meanings of these four?

Maalis is unknown as far as I know, but a mnemonic for it is to associate it with "maa", when the earth first starts to show from under the snow in early spring.

Huhti is indeed from huhta, in other words when forest was prepared for being burned down and the ashy ground be used for planting.

Marras actually refers to death, it's apparently related to the Latin word (and modern French morte). It's not derived from Latin, but shares an ancestor word.

Syys is indeed syksy, which as the first part of a compound becomes syys: syyssää (autumn weather).

[Levo]

I used the dictionary and it's very interesting and fun this way

Maalis, marras, huhti I couldn't find as syys either.
I guess syys is for syksy - autumn.
huhti maybe huhta? It would make sence with the meaning of the latter one.
marras - I found murros, pile of broken trees, which would be quite logical for the November in Hungary at least.

But now, what are the actual meanings of these four?

Maalis is unknown as far as I know, but a mnemonic for it is to associate it with "maa", when the earth first starts to show from under the snow in early spring.

Huhti is indeed from huhta, in other words when forest was prepared for being burned down and the ashy ground be used for planting.

Marras actually refers to death, it's apparently related to the Latin word (and modern French morte). It's not derived from Latin, but shares an ancestor word.

Syys is indeed syksy, which as the first part of a compound becomes syys: syyssää (autumn weather).

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