May / Gogatsu, Satsuki

kanji meanings :

• Go = five, the fifth.
  


• Gatsu = a month, the moon (= Tsuki).

Another name from old times in May.
The words "Sanaedzuki(Sa-nae-dzuki)" were shortened.
The meaning is "The month which plants rice".
(Sa-nae = sprouts of rice. )

• Sa = Kou = a swamp, a marsh, a mountain stream,
  a shore, a bank,
  May of lunar calendar.
  


• Tsuki = a month, the moon.