- the form Ēastrun, Ēastron, or Ēastran; but also as Ēastru, Ēastro; and
Ēastre or Ēostre. Bede
provides the only do****entary
source for the
etymology of...
- a West
Germanic spring goddess. The name is
reflected in Old English: *
Ēastre ([ˈæːɑstre];
Northumbrian dialect: Ēastro,
Mercian and West
Saxon dialects:...
- The Anglo-Saxons
called April ēastre-monaþ. The
Venerable Bede says in The
Reckoning of Time that this
month ēastre is the root of the word Easter....
- Billson. In 1961
Christina Hole wrote, "The hare was the
sacred beast of
Eastre (or Ēostre), a
Saxon goddess of
Spring and of the dawn."[page needed] The...
- to Proto-Germanic *Austrō, Old
Germanic *Ōstara and Old
English Ēostre/
Ēastre (whence also
Modern German "Österreich"
meaning "Eastern Empire", as well...
- entity. It has
cognates in the
goddesses Ēṓs, Uṣas, Aušrinė,
Auseklis and
Ēastre. In
Roman mythology, Aurōra
renews herself every morning and
flies across...
- P****over. The
modern English term
Easter developed from the Old
English word
Ēastre or Ēostre (Old
English pronunciation: [ˈæːɑstre, ˈeːostre]),
which itself...
-
track "
eastre" "glacial and serene" and
commented on the "violent squelches"
suggesting "machine-on-machine violence" in "c7b2". The
track "
eastre" was...
- Aurora, the
Lithuanian goddess Aušrinė, and the
English goddess Ēostre (OE:
ēastre),
whose name is
probably the root of the
modern English word "Easter." Ushas...
-
Eastre, Hymn to the Sun by J D Fergusson, 1924,
Perth Museum...
