You won't believe these Slovenian names for months!

[@r_r_r_r]

IIIIII have been waiting for this!!! This is SUCH A GEM for someone like me, desperate to reconnect with Slovenian culture. My grandparents who immigrated forbade the kids to speak Slovenian, to help them "acclimate" to the U.S., and so much was lost. Really appreciate your shares like this!

[@anzekepa2673]

Sad to hear that. Some of my father’s cousins were born in Australia (first generation born there) and they mostly speak no slovenian. Except one who taught herself some.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Awww thank you so much! Glad it was helpful. Happy reconnecting with your roots! Times were different back then, lots of fear everywhere, they were just doing their best

[@tubojan]

Excellent explanation of the old Slovenian names for the months of the year. Congratulations! As a Slovenian, I like to use these names so that they remain in our memory 👍

[@viktorija4485]

Ajh sori, napisala skor isti komentar brez da vidim tegale

[@igreeuropa]

1 Prosinec 🙏, 2 svečan🕯, 3 sušec🚱, 4 mali traven🌱, 5 veliki traven🌿, 6 rožnik💐, 7 mali srpanj🗡, 8 veliki srpanj🌾, 9 kimavec🌴, 10 vinotok🍷, 11 listopad🍃🍂, 12 gruden☃️. You are all welcome ❤

[@lydia5232]

Srpan, brez J

[@tienshinhan2524]

Srpan* Srpen, without J.

[@lydia5232]

@@tienshinhan2524 WTF don't you understand? Are you just making a fool of yourself? It's Srpan, not Srpen. Don't fuck with me; 1. I am Slovenian and I will know what I am talking about. As for you, if you don't keep quiet, I'll put you on J like a worm on a hook. 2. I don't like parrots very much.

[@hglundahl]

7:06 Congratulations. Polish also calls November Listopad.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Nice!

[@dunwitch]

Super fun; love the old month names. They should be brought back! Your videos helped convince my girlfriend and I to go on a two-week vacation to Slovenia this summer; we had a blast. Kobarid was our favourite town.

[@yellowbeardjamesgibson9297]

Hello 👋 Miss Barbra !!! Warmest regards from the Sunshine ☀ State of Florida 😎 current high of 82 Degrees Today 😊 As always the like button 🔳 has been Illuminated & I Am still Subscribed 👍

[@jameskernz9550]

Hi Barbara. Great explanation that helps me reconnect with my Slovenian roots. PS ... my sister is buying ingredients for our upcoming potica baking for USA Thanksgiving holiday. Keep producing content. You are the best!

[@glengardner4126]

Thanks for sharing more of Slovenia's mostly practical yet peppered with me fun spirit, which also is a fit description of Barbara 😂.

[@johnniewelbornjr.8940]

Your content, while almost always humorous, is also very educational! I enjoy the twist you put on such things... Great presentation and thanks for sharing!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Thank you!

[@masongilligan2856]

Sweet video Barbara, was pretty awesome to hear how in tune Slovenian culture was with the processes of nature and farming. Really kept me riveted throughout the video, pretty frickin funny. That's awesome that you are going back to visit for Christmas. Can't wait for some of you're holiday content. 😄🎄❄

[@charleshulsey3103]

I love word history! This was fun!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Yay, I'm glad

[@huberthorsky611]

In Czech - leden, únor, březen, duben, květen (máj), červen, červenec, srpen, září, říjen, listopad, prosinec :) It´s kind of tricky :) Listopad is the same, while "prosinec" is December for us... Same like with Polish, where kwiecień would be april, but květen means May in Czech...

[@izelenic]

Siječanj (sečen) Veljača Ožujak Travanj Svibanj Lipanj Srpanj Kolovoz Rujan Listopad Studeni Prosinec

[@marcinborkowicz2557]

@@huberthorsky611, once I was booking online a visit in a passport office in one of the biggest city in Poland. To my great confusion, a software was apparently written by a Czech company, because a calendar form had the names of months i Czech! I was booking my visit in May but there was no Maj (May) in a calendar but there was květen instead😄

[@huberthorsky611]

@@marcinborkowicz2557 We use the word máj, but mostly in poems or when we talk about the First of May... People would understand you if you say máj, but it would sound kinda archaic and literal :)

[@ekisauruslux6795]

hvala ejga

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Ni panike matrvola

[@iSTAYuGO]

How quickly a year passes by ;)

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Very true!

[@jerobaal2.0]

greetings Slovenian Queen

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Lol hello

[@jimmy75256]

0:42 that look

[@manfredbismark6688]

Thanks Barbara! Rudi.

[@amjan]

11 listopad🍂 - in Polish also - listopad! 12 gruden☃ - in Polish also - grudzień!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Oh nice!

[@Xaina.Sarpenta]

I enjoyed this! Thank you!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LiamODonovan-l6e]

You are awesome. barbra, i love your channel. You are always interesting. Slovenia sounds interesting

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Thank you!

[@edwil111]

Yay Barb! Back on the camera!

[@marcinborkowicz2557]

Beside a generally different pronunciation to Slovenian and an accent put, listopad is also the name of November in Polish. Gruden = grudzień. Both months' meanings are perfectly the same in Polish to the Slovenian ones.

[@viktorija4485]

Oh, what a wonderfull explanation, thanks! As a Slovenian now I can finally! recall all this beautiful old names :)

[@jeffsaviola2109]

This was fun and extremely informative .. going to share this hvala as always Barbara

[@Esteban_Herrera]

I'm interested in Christmas in Slovenia. Interesting shirt you ar wearing. 😃

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

I'll make videos for sure!

[@mclurr3197]

Holy shit I had to check your own videos to remember who you even are. Welcome back.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Thanks... I guess? :D

[@michaelblacktree]

Barbara's graphics go hard. LOL. 😎

[@hglundahl]

7:37, Grudzień in Polish too.

[@hglundahl]

6:37 I'm conferring with the Heurigen season in Vienna. A wine ceases to be a Heuriger on St. Martin's feast. So, arguably the Heurigen season starts in Vinotok.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Hey, little Squirrelie. Interesting shirt, especially with tattoo on arm, XD. Did know that originally the year in Romulus calender started in March and was missing Januari and Februari. March (Martius aka Month of Mars), May (Maius aka Month of Maia), July (Quintilis) and October had 31 days during. While April (Aprilis aka month of Apru/Aphrodite), June (Iunius aka Month of Juno), August (Sextilis), September, november and December had 30 days. Than king Numa had Januari (Ianuarius aka Month of Janus) and Februari (Februarius aka Month of Febru) at the end 1st in order 2 fill the winter months (what later was put at the beginging (when isn't exactly known and some have discussions aboot it) and with it Quintilis changed 2 July (in honor of Julius Ceasar) and Sextilis was changed into August (because of Augustus)). Januari, April, June, August, September, November and December now have 29 days, while Februari had 28 days, the rest 31 days. Than a Pontifex Maximus (the high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome) made it that every leap year (what was every 2 year instead of 4) a exta month was added, named Intercalaris. In the leap year Februari had 23/24 days instead of 28 and the Intercalaris had 27/28 days. Than Julius Ceasar became Pontifex Maximus. He changed it that every 4 year it was just 1 day added in Februari (what have 28 days normaly), either Januari, March, May, July, August, October and December had 31 days and rest 30 days. Thus the Julian calender was made with 365.25 days, but Pope Gregory XIII noticed that days were slower and had it 365.2425 (later it was shown it is 365.2422 instead), either skipped 13 days. Either the Romans copied the Greek calender, what had lunar cycle of 29.5 days and a solar year of 12.5 synodic months (meeting of sun and moon) (368.75 days). Either Romans used Nundinae aka nundine aka 8 days weeks (what did give some problems, as it doesn't really fit well, so the nundinae fell on a different letter each year (what in turn that these letters created the basis of the later Christian dominical letters). You should do weekdays next. BTW you r getting close to 50K. Stay awesome and positive, Little Squirrelie 🐿📆.

[@markokorosec174]

My best is Vinotok, not because I drink, but because I can laugh at drunk people when they do crazy things. I'm not evil, I just like comedy. 😂😂 The best was one man, once he fell on the ground on a straight floor and broke his leg, but we needed to call an ambulance after that. 😂🤣😂

[@MarkYaklich-fm3ty]

Great vid. They celebrate Vinotok in Crested Butte, CO - pretty weird celebration ending in a big bonfire!!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Oh nice!

[@huberthorsky611]

We say leden for January, which is deriver from led - "ice..."

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

That is dope. We have "leden" word as well and it's for "icy" as well :)

[@teodorvrhovec8935]

I'm frome Slovenia it's butiful.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

I agree!

[@VitekBrno89]

In Czech, September is called 'září,' which can be translated as 'shine' or maybe even 'The Shining.' 👨‍🦰🪓😄

[@a3hmax913]

Here in Latin America we haven't other names for the months, just adjectives like "may, the month of the flowers" 😮

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

That's beautiful

[@NinjaZXRR]

December 23rd is Festivus. it's a Festivus Miracle, it's Festivus for the rest of us.

[@voyagersquaremuzika]

A kod nas u hrvatskoj je malo po drugomu! 1.Siječanj 2.Veljača 3.Ožujak 4.Travanj 5.Svibanj 6.Lipanj 7.Srpanj 8.Kolovoz 9.Rujan 10.Listopad 11.Studeni 12.Prosinac

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Lipanj

[@scottinphoenix739]

"...video that nobody has been waiting for.." - I bet many of us were waiting for a new video from you.😁😁I liked "a stream of wine" -- that's pretty hard-core wine aficionados.

[@steveflatbush]

Very interesting. My favorite month is Vinotok. ; ) Have fun in Slovenia! I don't know about different month names, but sometimes we call the season "Autumn" a different name, "Fall". You've probably heard this already, but thought I'd mention it. I think Autumn is more European, not Fall.

[@gazoontight]

This is very interesting. Barbara looks somewhat different in this video. That's interesting, too.

[@ronaldmacmillan8211]

I like the old names better. Rožnik is my favourite. 🌷 I'll use it to confuse people who don't seem to understand what I'm saying anyway. 😁

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

I love that one too and Listopad :)

[@davidthewise5250]

Love ❤️ you Barbara Horvat

[@franekkimono2549]

Pure sweetness

[@MyApps-uf1dz]

Kimanec is the coolest, perfectly understandable in Bulgarian as well 😂 (after somebody tells you what it means!) Would people still understand those names, or only the well-read ones? "Fruitful" in English = fertile 🙂

[@amormir8280]

In Croatia 😉🇭🇷 old names depending on region and dialect: 1. siječanj - antonšćak, antonšnjak, antoštak, antonjski, antonjski mesec, sičanj, śicanj, sičan, prosinec, malo božičnjak, sjesanj,... 2. veljača - sičanj, sičan, sečanj, vela, febrar, vejača, velja noć, svečen,... 3. ožujak - marač, marč, marac, morč, sušec, gregurščak,... 4. travanj - avrija, avril, aprlj, april, travan, mali traven, đurđevščak,... 5. svibanj - maj, moź, mož, sviban, veliki traven, filipovščak,... 6. lipanj - pomajić, ivanjski, ivanjski mesec, jun, zunj, źunj, žunj, sorpanj, lipan, klasen, ivanščak,... 7. srpanj - žetvenjak, jakovajski, jakovajski mesec, luj, kriśnjok, krišnjok, srpan, serpen, jakopovščak,... 8. kolovoz - angušt, jangušt, stomorinski, stomorinski mesec, aguśt, agušt, agust, veliko mešnjak,.... 9. rujan - smokvenjak, pohust, mihojski, mihojski mesec, šetenbar, śetembar, śetenbar, šetembar, malo mešnjak,... 10. listopad - miholjšćak, miholjski, miholjski mesec, lučinski, lučinski mesec, otonbar, otubar, otobar, lukovščak, miholjščak,... 11. studeni - martinšćak, martinšnjak, martinski, martinski mesec, martinštak, martišnjak, martinjski, martinjski mesec, katarinski, katarinski mesec, źimni, zimji, novembar, nuvenbar, vsesveščak,... 12. prosinac - prosunac, božićnjak, advent, božićni mesec, decenbar, prośinac, decembar, gruden, veliko božičnjak,...

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

O moj bog! Even more complicated!!!

[@amormir8280]

@TheBarbaraHorvat Hahah 😁. Well nowadays it's only in historical books, archives and it can be found written on some catholic calendars, those months with saint names 😉😉.

[@kmsoloviev]

Сделайте, пожалуйста, обзор веселых песен Словении. Благодарю.🎉

[@Hellinophilos]

Zelo dobro ! Najlepša hvala, Barbara. I felt sorry that the Slovene language doesn't have colorful names for months, like Croatian, Czech or Polish. Croatia is just across the border, why did it keep the old names and you didn't ? Likewise, you don't have the vocative case anymore, like Croatian or Czech. We cannot call to you "Barbaro !"

[@tienshinhan2524]

In Slovene Slavic months still existed but they are not used. Latin months are used, but those Slavic ones still existed {they are not obsolete}. About vocative... Slovene offical don't have vocative case but in Slovene language still existed words in vocative, such as "oče" (father) original in nominative is "otec/očec". Then names such as "Jure" instead "Jurij", "Jože" instead "Jožef" etc. When I lived in Slovenia my neighbor that had a rabbit, she called that "moj zajče" which is vocative from "zajec" & they're grandchildren "moj vnuče/otroče" which is vocative form of "vnuk/otrok". So vocative still exist in some coloqual form.

[@edzanjero353]

Pozdrav iz Kranja ❤️🇸🇮

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Hellloooo :)

[@edzanjero353]

@TheBarbaraHorvat ....🇸🇮❤️❤️❤️💕...Ste že obiskali Oregon? Lepa je skoraj tako kot Julijci.

[@domagojcapko4152]

Not flexing but here in Croatia we still use our own words and we don't plan to replace them ever

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Are you ever gonna give me any of that Slovenian Hawk Tuah???

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

I had to google that and now I am upset that I know what that is

[@michaelbrinks8089]

@TheBarbaraHorvat I'm sorry 😂😂😂

[@hoibsh21]

Oh Bayba , Bayba !

[@davidthewise5250]

Lucky chair 🪑

[@hglundahl]

5:19 Veliki srpan = Sierpień (but July is unrelated Lipiec).

[@hglundahl]

0:50 Very curious how similar they would be to Polish month names (Polish tends to boycott modern names as being too Russian) ...

[@valentintapata2268]

Slavic names for months are similar, but not everywhere is the same (growing) season at the same time - because of that the timetable can be a little different.

[@hglundahl]

@@valentintapata2268 Indeed. Sierpien is veliki srpan, and nothing like that for mali srpan, obviously because harvesting is later in Poland since it's further North.

[@kmsoloviev]

😮

[@EarthWalkerMan]

4:56 and 5:23 ... Interesting choice of images 😅

[@klaudija33]

Svečan? Februarja se porabi že manj sveč kot januarja😂 . Mislim, da so tu mišljene ledene sveče, ker se začne topiti sneg?

[@andrejvnuk7493]

se strinjam. Svečan izhaja iz ledenih sveč, Sušec pa ne iz kopne zemlje, pač pa iz dejstva, da je marca zelo malo padavin in je to zelo suh mesec!

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Vec teorij je, dve stvari hkrati sta lahko resnicni :)

[@izelenic]

Štajerski nazivi su isti? Prekmurje?

[@Gohan7-cr1nf]

Ovo su zvanicni/standardni nazivi/imena ali ih ne koriste ali jos uvijek su prisutna. U regionalnim dialektnim govorima ima i drugih naziva, isto kao i kod drugih Slavena.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

These aren't used anymore but I believe it would be different, slightly

[@Gohan7-cr1nf]

@@TheBarbaraHorvat They are not used in litteral language, but still existed on Calendars beside Latin ones. What you mean by different?

[@wwesvk9958]

Thanks for cleaning me 😂 dont need to take shower now 😂

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

You're welcome haha

[@ginismoja2459]

Zdravo

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

čavči

[@antonkomel9337]

👌

[@richardphelps2289]

I like your tee shirt.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Thanks hehe

[@stipe3124]

Šteta što niste to ostavili kao službene nazive za mjesece, slavenski nazivi za mjesece su jako zanimljivi i koliko god su slični ipak nisu isti i u svakoj zemlji su različiti dovoljno da budu posebni .

[@elijahpetrov9346]

I agree that tattoos are stupid

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

You're so edgy and cool, how can I be more like you?

[@tommay6590]

What a month for wine, but none for pivo😮?

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Wine is more popular in Slovenia

[@tommay6590]

@@TheBarbaraHorvat "is" or "was"?

[@pounceonyou1958]

Barbara, you should move to Chino Hills, so you can go to Jack Hibbs church, you would do well doing that.

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

I don't go to church

[@pounceonyou1958]

@@TheBarbaraHorvat I know, but you are open minded right?

[@BajroSlavić]

Croats use that too

[@LUKALUKIČ-e2o]

Svečan -ledene sveče s streh

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

That is also true :)

[@johnfox2483]

but shortest days are in December. In polish we have 3 marzec 8 sierpień 11 listopad 12 grudzien.

[@Александър_Стойчев]

Its not only wine

[@ridlaridlidouzou]

Se pred tem je bilo 13 mesecov, vsak po 28 dni + novo leto.

[@alexsasha7595]

Prosinec in Czech language is December 🤣

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

That is so awesome :D

[@amerocker]

How much prosinec would I have to eat to overcome baldness? 👴

[@JoshuaAbrams-w8w]

The new names for the months sound very German. When was this changed?

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Nothing German about them they are quite literally just translated from English

[@dannydanny9875]

why does the language have to be so complicated?

[@timbrennan3602]

Is she for real or is it AI?

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

it's Maybelline

[@antondzajajurca7797]

prositi = to beg :)

[@TheBarbaraHorvat]

Prositi is to ask. Begging would be more like "beračenje"

[@antondzajajurca7797]

@@TheBarbaraHorvat sopomenka :)