The Roman Year and Horoscope and Hour

The word our has that silent h at the beginning, because it was originally pronounced by the greeks in the original greek version of the word. The roman word for year didn't come from the same root as the english word year. This reflects the movement away from using the sun to measure hours. As early mechanical watches began to be developed, the sun was no longer needed to measure time. And this begins the ment toward measuring time more in terms of hours and minutes, rather than days, years and months.