Re: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and other languages.)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 24, 2000, 11:36 |
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At 09:57 PM 4/24/2000, Aidan wrote:
>FFlores wrote:
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> > I had seen "Passover" and evidently thought it was a different name
> > for the same thing -- I'd probably have made the same mistake as
> > Luca. Where does the word "Easter" come from, BTW?
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> Well, it's cognate with the Old German Goddess Eostre, and oestrus cycle.
>But I'm not sure exactly where it came from.
Actually it's unrelated to <oestrus>.
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo