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Eastermonth

name

Etymology

Calque of Old English Ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter-month”), equivalent to Easter + month. Cognate with Old Dutch ōstermānoth (“April”), German Ostermonat (“April”, literally “Easter-month”) (cp. German Ostermond (“April”, literally “Easter-moon”)).

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon, month”
  2. inherited from *mēnōþs✻ — “month”
  3. inherited from *mānōþ✻
  4. inherited from mōnaþ
  5. inherited from moneth
  6. compounded as eastermonth — “Easter + month”

Definitions

  1. The typical month of the Paschal cycle

    The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.

    • Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.
    • April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Eastermonth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA