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  • 5r,

    Table with five columns giving the names of the months according to the Hiǧrī, zodiacal, Ethiopian, and Coptic calendars.

    The fourth column contain month names in Oromo; however only four of the names (i.e. Bitooteessa, Waxabajjii, Adooleessa, Hagayya) could be identified from the differing lists found in the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 1, p. 675, and on these websites:

    http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=pz758f4ep7

    http://yeha.sourceforge.net/Locales/dr_ET-Qubee.html

  • 5v,

    Two tables and comments about intercalation in Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.