Glad P åsk!

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi Gerry!

Of course that is essentially true as it also was for the Goths. Linguistically it hence proves nothing and I admit I was thinking wrongly. Still  we have the question why just Scandinavia and not the rest of the Germanic world - esentially Germany and Britain - accepted this Greek word. The French have paque of course but the present French is strongly romanized. I have no idea of what the Franks called it. Any suggestions?

Ingemar

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Grsartor at ... wrote:
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> I think we should be careful about drawing conclusions concerning the  
> distribution "pask" for Easter. Is this word not likely to be from Greek  
> "pascha", which in turn was from Hebrew? Compare the English words "paschal" and  
> (archaic) pasch.
>  
> Gerry T.
>  
>  
> In a message dated 23/04/2011 22:13:52 GMT Daylight Time,  
> ingemar at ... writes:
> 
> Glad  Påsk or happy Paska!   Maybe it is thinkworth that Swedish and the  
> other Scandinavian languages use the closest cognate to Gothic paska. It 
> shows  still a connection between North- and  Eastgermanic.
> 
> Ingemar
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