The Names of the Months in the First Belarusian Newspapers “Nasza Dola” and “Nasza Niwa”

The article discusses the process of creating the system of month names in the Belarusian language. The systematization of names and their selection began in the first year of publication in Vilna (Vilnius) (since 1906) of the first Belarusian-language newspapers „Nasza Dola” and „Nasza Niwa” („Naša Niwa”). A possible source of words could be the „Dictionary of the Belarusian Dialect” compiled by Ivan Nosovich and published in 1870. The variability of lexemes is analyzed on examples from „Naša Niwa” from subsequent years (until 1915) and dialectal material from the 1920s. Attention is drawn to the incompleteness of the available dialectal material, the insufficient attention of scientists of the previous period to the names of months and the history of their functioning in the Belarusian language, which does not allow for a complete reconstruction of the process of creating their varieties both in Belarusian dialects, as well as in literary language.