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did the word month come the word moon?

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Yes. It's pretty much the same word. In Old English:
mona = moon
monath = month (spelled monað)

The Oxford English Dictionary says that they're basically the same word with the same etymology, just with a slightly different ending.

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Yes. Since the lunar month always began with the appearing of the new moon (Heb., cho′dhesh), the term “new moon” also came to mean “month.”

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