Question

Answere the questions:
1.According to the passage,where did the word January come from?
2.How else did people call the first month of the year?
3.Why did the Saxons call it wolf month?

Answer 1

1. January is named after the Roman god Janus, who presided over doors and beginnings – appropriately enough, for the beginning of the year (though this is, as you will discover, not as straightforward as it seems). Indeed, Janus was usually depicted with two faces looking backwards and forwards, as is often characteristic of a new year; this also gave rise to the term Janus word for words that have two opposite meanings.