What is uinal?

A uinal is like a special kind of month that helps people keep track of time in an ancient way.

Imagine you have a big calendar on your wall that shows how many days are in each month, but instead of 30 or 31, this one has 20 days. That’s what a uinal is: a group of 20 days, like a short month.

In some old cultures, people counted time using these uinals, and they would stack them together to make bigger chunks of time. For example, if you had two uinals, that’s 40 days, kind of like having two little months stuck together!

It’s a bit like how we have weeks: 7 days in one week, and then 52 weeks in a year. But instead of 7, they used 20, maybe because it was easier for them to count with their fingers!

So, when people talked about time back then, they might say something like, “We’ve had three uinals already!”, just like we’d say, “We’ve had three weeks already!”