Find and replace month names

Dear all, I have a few eps files in which month-year format is written like May-12, June-13 etc. I want to change May to Mai, June to Juin etc.
Virender
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
for (i = 0; i < myDoc.textFrames.length; i++ )
     var textArt = myDoc.textFrames[i];
     for (j =0; j < textArt.words.length; j++ )
      var word = textArt.words[j];
     switch (word.contents)
     case "May-\d\d":    // please advise here
            word.contents = "Mai";
        break;
     case "Mar-\d\d":
            word.contents = "Mrz";
        break;
     case "June-\d\d":
            word.contents = "Juin";
        break;
alert("Done");

Vielen Dank pixxxel schubser.
I worte below script as per your suggustion and my requirements. Meanwhile this scipt convert English month to german months. Any possibility I can create a script which ask me for German, French and Italy buttons. So if I click on German button, then German's month coding execute and if i click on French then French's month coding execute and so on. I knew it can be done using dialog (in Indesign I sure) but not sure in Illustrator. Kindly advise.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
for (i = 0; i < myDoc.textFrames.length; i++ )
     var textArt = myDoc.textFrames[i];
     for (j =0; j < textArt.words.length; j++ )
      var word = textArt.words[j];
        word.contents = word.contents.replace ("Mar", "Maz");
        word.contents = word.contents.replace ("May", "Mai");
        word.contents = word.contents.replace ("Oct", "Okt");
        word.contents = word.contents.replace ("Dec", "Dez");
//alert("Done");

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