{"id":9846,"date":"2016-03-26T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/happy-easter-i-think\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:36:35","slug":"happy-easter-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/happy-easter-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter&#8230; I think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany, we enjoy a long weekend on Easter, because both Good Friday and Easter Monday are holidays here &#8211; which means no work! And I for one have been in need of some off time, let me tell you&#8230;<br \/>\nBut anyway, even if it is all play this weekend, here&#8217;s a little language lesson for you: Do you know where the word \u00abEaster\u00bb comes from? In case you don&#8217;t, here&#8217;s the answer, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishlanguagefaqs.com\/2016\/03\/where-does-word-easter-come-from.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The English Language<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\">\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Where does the word Easter come from?&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-header\">\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"sc\" style=\"background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: url(http:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/static\/graphics\/icons-left.png); background-position: 0px -993px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #1c4b8b; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.2em -15px; padding: 0px 0px 6px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mKRMIvNF3b8\/U1Ij5wKXcoI\/AAAAAAAAC_c\/YU03kAEkySw\/s1600\/Screenshot+2014-04-19+08.18.51.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2014-04-19-08.18.51.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Perhaps surprisingly the origin of&nbsp;<i>Easter<\/i> is not biblical.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" name=\"more\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">The word is not in the New Testament. Nor does it feature in most translations of the Bible into vernacular languages.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Romance languages directly link Easter to the<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">&nbsp;Jewish feast of&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishlanguagefaqs.com\/2013\/03\/what-is-passover-where-does-word-come.html\" style=\"font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passover<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: georgia,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">P\u00e2ques in French&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">covers both Easter and Passover.<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">There is often more linguistic emphasis on the idea of Holy Week &nbsp;as &nbsp;in&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"font-family: georgia,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Semana Santa <\/i><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">in Spanish)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">So where did the word Easter come from?&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Scholars agree that the word&nbsp;<i>Easter<\/i>&nbsp;has pre-Christian roots. Beyond that there is little consensus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">The most popular theory is reflected in the entry for&nbsp;<em>Easter<\/em>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>Canadian Oxford Dictionary<\/em>: <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">Old English&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u0113astre,<\/em><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;after a Germanic goddess&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Eostre;<\/em><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;related to Old High German&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u014dstar\u016bn<\/em><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;Easter, Old Norse&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">austr<\/em><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">east<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">, Old Slavonic&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"hi\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #505050; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">ustru<\/em><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;like summer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">According to this explanation, the Old English word&nbsp;<em>eastre<\/em>&nbsp;came <em>Eostre<\/em>, \u00aba goddess associated with spring.\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Further<br \/>\n elaboration is found in a work written in AD 725 by Saint Bede, an<br \/>\nEnglish monk and historian. According to Bede, April was called&nbsp;<em>Eosturmonath<\/em>&nbsp;(\u00abEaster-month\u00bb) because in pagan times the month was dedicated to Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-b3TUb1rWRiI\/U1IlkFsm1dI\/AAAAAAAAC_k\/OGtbix81wok\/s1600\/220px-Ostara_by_Johannes_Gehrts.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220px-Ostara_by_Johannes_Gehrts.jpg\" width=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i style=\"line-height: 15px;\">Ostara<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">&nbsp;(1884) by Johannes Gehrts<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">When Christian beliefs spread throughout England, says Bede,&nbsp;<em>Easter-month<\/em>&nbsp;lent its name to the new April festival.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span>&nbsp;Spring Festivals?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot;,&quot;times new roman&quot;,serif;\">Another theory is that&nbsp;<em>Eostre<\/em>&nbsp;was<br \/>\n simply the Anglo-Saxon word for spring festivals. Linguists trace this<br \/>\nword to roots thousands of years old meaning \u00abshine\u00bb and \u00abdawn.\u00bb Spring<br \/>\nis a season of lengthening days and increased light. It would make sense<br \/>\n for early peoples to give their spring festivals a name that celebrated<br \/>\n the rising sun. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca\/bien-well\/fra-eng\/vocabulaire-vocabulary\/mot-word-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRegardless of where the word comes from though, or how many days you get to have off, the reason we celebrate it is because Christ is risen &#8211; He is indeed risen!<br \/>\nSo have a Happy Easter! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany, we enjoy a long weekend on Easter, because both Good Friday and Easter Monday are holidays here &#8211; which means no work! And I for one have been in need of some off time, let me tell you&#8230; But anyway, even if it is all play this weekend, here&#8217;s a little language lesson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,90,341],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","tag-easter","tag-english","tag-language","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}