May, the fifth month of the year, so called from a Sanskrit word signifying to grow, as being the shooting or growing month.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maxwell, Sir William Stirling * May, Isle OfMay in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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