The Sixth Month
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church education states the sixth month “as Yekatit.” Aleka Kidan Wolde Kefilea in his spiritual dictionary says the term is derived from “Ketete” and the phrases “Ketit, Ketitot” and means “the name of a month, the sixth month, the peak of harvest, inclusion, the beginning of autumn.” (Page 515)
Other writers have stated the term as “Yekatit” derived from “Ketit, Ketitot” and says has means “thresh, produce, gather and embed.” They have also said it is the month where the harvest is put into the barn.