From Middle English Januarie, januari, re-latinised forms of Middle English Janevere, Ieneuer, from Anglo-Norman genever, from Latin iānuārius ("(month) of Janus"), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- ("to go"). Gennaro.
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