Re: Country Related: Christmas

Carlos Thompson scripsit:

> By the way, where does the word "Easter" comes from?
An English pre-Christian goddess of dawn and spring; it's related
to "east".

BTW, does anyone know why the native Latin terms for the four
directions were lost in the Romance lgs in favor of Germanic
borrowings?  "West" with its alien initial consonant (which
becomes "o" or "u") particularly sticks out.

--
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)