One year is ending, and a new one is coming. What does that even mean?
A year, as a period, has a natural, astronomical basis - it is the period for which the Earth goes around the Sun once.
Calendar-wise, it is the time from January 1 to December 31.
That's how they say it in South Slavic languages, but in Slovenian and Lusatian Serbian it is said summer. Russians and Belarusians say year, while with Slovaks, Czechs and Poles it went in the other direction, so they say Year, as well as Ukrainians year.
Favorable time
The tree has rings, which are formed due to the change of winter dormancy and growth period. Softer, lighter tissue is created so that minerals can more easily go from the roots to the crown.
Proto-Slavic root year at first it denoted auspicious time, which was often early autumn for the Slavs. Furthermore, it means a holiday, or a period - but not fixed as it is today in Serbian, but any.
That with favorable age comes from the verb goditi. In the Dictionary of Synonyms (2008) it is defined as "to be to one's taste, to like, to praise excessively, to speak nice words, to satisfy one's ambition".
Almost everything can be postponed.
Hence tuning i indignation.
Hence we can hit i to settle, so that we can all be somewhat satisfied.
Hence an event, agreement i achievement (as Croats also call a goal in football), hence accident i bad weather.
It can also be temporal, for example postpone.
Some try to delay death. The only thing that cannot be postponed is the new year.
