For why Almea seems Earth-like, and Verduria even more so, . But in brief: it's intentional; Verduria is supposed to be familiar, like most fantasy realms, and areas outside it more exotic.
There are a lot of linguistic borrowings. (Some of them I probably wouldn't do if I were starting over!)
Tu is actually a faux ami— the original word for 'thou' is le, and tu was a 3rd person singular pronoun.
12 months are actually hard to get away from! It's a nice dividable number, and something divisible by 4 fits a temperate climate very well. You could do 6 (as in ancient India) or 24 (as in China), but these aren't that different.
As for biology, the general idea is that I use the closest English term, but Almean animals are not identical to earthly ones.
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