Re: Country Related: Christmas

Carlos Thompson scripsit:

> I know Spanish "Navidad" is a short form of "natividad": birth.  In the
> word "Chrsitmas" I've hear the etymology means Christ birth, but I can't
> be sure.
"Christ's mass".  There are other such forms, like "Hallowmas" =
All Saints' Day, 1 November.

>  I've never known where Swedish "Jul" comes from...
It's a pre-Christian term for the year's end, used also in English
("Yule").


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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)