Yulemonth

English

Alternative forms

• Yule-month, yule-month

Etymology

From Middle English *Yol-month (found only as Ȝoless moneþþ (literally “Yule's month”)), from Old English ġeohholmōnaþ, Iūlmōnaþ (“December”, literally “Yule-month”), equivalent to Yule +‎ month. Compare West Frisian joelmoanne (“December”), German Julmond (“Yulemonth”).

Proper noun

Yulemonth

1. (rare) The typical month of the Yuletide; the month in which Yule typically occurs; Christmas month; December.
   • 1899, Alexander Tille, Yule and Christmas:

     Notwithstanding his assertion that December 25 was originally called Yule, and that December and January from it received their names as the earlier and later Yulemonth, there is not a single case, prior to the eleventh century, in which December 25 was called Yule.

   • 2010, Richard Argent, Winter's Knight:

     To go out during the dark hours before 'Yule-month' arrived was suicide. Even Norman lords and their houseswains would not venture out of the village on such nights as these.

Anagrams

• Lynemouth