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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:...
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sacred beast of
Eastre (or
Ēostre), a
Saxon goddess of
Spring and of the dawn."[page needed] The
belief that
Ēostre had a hare
companion who became...
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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...
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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...
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March equinox. The
English term is
derived from the
Saxon spring festival Ēostre;
Easter is
linked to the
Jewish P****over by its name (Hebrew: פֶּסַח pesach...
- Look up
Eostre or
oester in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ostara may
refer to: the Old High
German for "Easter",
cognate to Anglo-Saxon
Ēostre Spring...
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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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Ēostre is doubtful. John
Andrew Boyle cites an
etymology dictionary by
Alfred Ernout and
Antoine Meillet, who
wrote that the
lights of
Ēostre were...
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mythology DMP · 342 343
Ostara 1892 N Ostara, Old High
German name for
Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon
goddess of spring,
reconstructed by
Jacob Grimm in his...
- the plum,
bamboo and pine. Nane Sarma,
Granma Frost,
Iranian folklore.
Ēostre, West
Germanic spring goddess; she is the
namesake of the
festival of Easter...
