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

Aidan Grey wrote:

> FFlores wrote:
>
> > 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, it's cognate with the Old German Goddess Eostre, and oestrus
cycle.
> But I'm not sure exactly where it came from.
>
>     Aidan
"Easter" was quite a while back, it was the Vernal Equinox. Originally,
Easter (OE. eastre, Old Frisian asteron, OHG ostarun) was the festival of
Eostre (actually the WS form was Eastre, Eostre was Bede's Northumbrian
form), the goddess of the dawn. The Proto-Germanic was *Austron, based on
*austra "east", from PIE *aus-, which also gave Latin aurora.

Easter is "pasc" in Arvorec, "âsteren" in Old Weldish, "astern" in Modern
Weldish and "âstren" in Adelisz. These are the only conlangs I have which
are spoken by Christians (or have come into contact with Christians).

The original festival was celebrated by us pagans last month. Happy
(belated) Easter!

Dan

BTW, is an oestrus cycle anything like a menstrual cycle, only at Easter?

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