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Ēostre (Proto-Germanic: *Austrō(n)) is a West
Germanic spring goddess. The name is
reflected in Old English: *Ēastre ([ˈæːɑstre];
Northumbrian dialect:...
- Spring-Goddess whom we have
already met
under her Anglo-Saxon name of
Ēostre." The
belief that
Ēostre had a hare
companion who
became the
Easter Bunny was po****rized...
- up
Eostre or
oester in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ostara may
refer to: the Old High
German word for "Easter",
cognate to Anglo-Saxon
Ēostre Spring...
- to
Ēostre is doubtful. John
Andrew Boyle cites an
etymology dictionary by
Alfred Ernout and
Antoine Meillet, who
wrote that the
lights of
Ēostre were...
- equinox. The
English term is
derived from the Anglo-Saxon
goddess name
Ēostre;
Easter is
linked to the
Jewish P****over by its name (Hebrew: פֶּסַח pesach...
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Easter developed from the Old
English word Ēastre or
Ēostre (Old
English pronunciation: [ˈæːɑstre,
ˈeːostre]),
which itself developed prior to 899, originally...
- and
Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'.
Ēostre, a
Germanic goddess of dawn,
might have been a
personification of both dawn...
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produced by
linguist Jacob Grimm of an Old High
German form of the Old
English Ēostre, an Anglo-Saxon
goddess for whom,
according to Bede,
feasts were held in...
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named after the
goddess Ēostre. 19th-century
scholar Jacob Grimm notes,
while no
other source mentions the
goddesses Rheda and
Ēostre,
saddling Bede, a "father...
- proto-Indo-European form is *austo-s from the root *aues- 'shine (red)'. See
Ēostre.
south (*sunþ-),
derived from proto-Indo-European *sú-n-to-s from the root...
