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Months

Nominative Case

This is used when the word is the subject of the sentence. This is what is used when the priest simply wrote the name of the month in the column for the date.

English	Latin	Polish	Ukrainian (Cyrillic)	Ukrainian (transliterated)
January	Januarius (Ianuarius)	styczeń	січень	sichen’
February	Februarius	luty	лютий	liutyi
March	Martius	marzec	березень	berezen’
April	Aprilis	kwiecień	квітень	kviten’
May	Maius (Majus)	maj	травень	traven’
June	Junius (Iunius)	czerwiec	червень	cherven’
July	Julius (Iulius)	lipiec	липень	lypen’
August	Augustus	sierpień	серпень	serpen’
September	September	wrzesień	вересень	veresen’
October	October	październik	жовтень	zhovten’
November	November	listopad	листопад	lystopad
December	December	grudzień	грудень	hruden’

Genitive Case

This is used, for the purposes of these records, to show possession. (In English, when we would say "OF the month". So, in the phrase the 1^st of January, the Genitive Case would be used for the word "January" because you are saying "OF January". The ending of the word, in this case the month, changes slightly. One need not memorize all of these endings just to read the parish registry books.

English	Latin	Polish	Ukrainian (cyrillic)	Ukrainian (transliterated)
of January	Januarii	stycznia	січня	sichnia
of February	Februarii	lutego	лютого	liutoho
of March	Martii	marca	березня	bereznia
of April	Aprilis	kwietnia	квітня	kvitnia
of May	Maii	maja	травня	travnia
of June	Junii	czerwca	червня	chervnia
of July	Julii	lipca	липня	lypnia
of August	Augusti	sierpnia	серпня	serpnia
of September	Septembris	września	вересня	veresnia
of October	Octobris	października	жовтня	zhovtnia
of November	Novembris	listopada	листопада	lystopada
of December	Decembris	grudnia	грудня	hrudnia

For older Greek Catholic records, you may come across Church Slavic.