The modern English names for the months of the year all come from Latin but before the English began to use the Latin names they had their own native names which in some cases are more interesting than the Latin ones
The old English name for january was Wulf-Monath which means month of the wolves.
the have been no wolves in Britain for almost three centuries so it is hard to imagine a time when wolves roamed the island . In the cold of the deep winter they got so hungry that they came into the towns to look for food so January was called Wulf- Monath
January is named after Janus the Roman god of beginnings and endings . Janus had two faces, one that looked into the future and one that looked into the past. January is a fitting name for the first month of the new year because it is a custom on January first for people to look at what they have done in the past and make decisions for the future .
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