Re: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and other languages.)

FFlores wrote:
>
> John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> >A cross-cultural note:  English, unlike the Romance languages, makes a
> >rigid distinction between "Easter", which is the Christian holiday, and
> >"Passover", which is the Jewish one.  Passover this year was 26-27 April.
>
> 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?
Well, the Last Supper was a Passover Seder, so the two are somewhat
related, and that explains how close together they come in the year.
Don't know anything about where Easter comes from, tho.

>
> --Pablo Flores
>   http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
>   ... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
>   has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
>   bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
>   not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
>   of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
>                    Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_