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

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?


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  ... 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_