Note 1011 — Chapter XI · POPULAR MONTHS OF THE EUROPEAN PEOPLES.
F. J. Fielden translation
F. Kluge, Nominale Stammbildungslehre, 2nd ed., 1899, p. 66. The word is used in Coloss. II, 16, and translates Greek νεομηνία; this word really means ‘new moon’, but in later Greek any festival. Hence it is not very surprising that Ulfilas should have put ‘full moon’ for νεομηνία.