Wēodmōnaþ

{{Short description|Anglo-Saxon term for August}}

Wēodmōnaþ or Ƿēodmōnaþ (modern English: Weed (or Grass) Month) was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of August.Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.110

The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying that "Vueod-Monath is the month of weeds, as this is the time when they grow most abundantly"{{Citation

| chapter-url=http://www.nabkal.de/beda/beda_15.html

| chapter = Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum

| quote =Vueod-monath mensis zizaniorum, quod ea tempestate maxime abundent.

| author-link= Bede

| author= Beda Venerabilis

| title= De Temporum Ratione}}

Ƿēodmōnaþ is also explained in Menologium of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles:

"Agustus mōnaþ on ūre geþēode wē nemnaþ Wēodmōnaþ, for ðon ðe hī on ðam mōnþe mǣst geweaxaþ."{{Cite book

| last = Bosworth | first = Joseph

| chapter= Weód-mónaþ

| title=An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online

| editor1=Thomas Northcote Toller

| editor2=Christ Sean

| editor3= Ondřej Tichy

| place= Prague

| publisher= Faculty of Arts, Charles University

| year = 2014

| chapter-url=https://bosworthtoller.com/035110}}

"The month of Agustus we call the weed month in our language, for these grow most in this month.”