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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In Sochiapan Chinantec (</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mexico</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) the
expression for Christmas is literally: ‘time pertain-to God little’.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The word for ‘time’ can also mean ‘day, festival,
celebration’. The word for ‘pertain-to’ is beautifully
ambiguous, meaning either ‘referring to’ or alternatively, ‘belonging
to’; i.e. it is either ‘the festival about Him’ or ‘His
festival’. The word ‘little’ can mean either ‘young’
or ‘small size’.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David Foris</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Fritz Goerling
[mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 20 December 2004
11:53 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> lexicographylist yahoogroups<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Lexicog] Etymology of
Christmas, Yule, Weihnachten etc.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From Fritz Goerling</span></font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I am
interested in how different languages name "Christmas" and where the</span></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>word</span></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>comes from.
The word Christ comes from Greek xristos, meaning "the anointed</span></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>one,</span></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the Lord's
Anointed." The suffix -mas evolved from the Old English word</span></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>maesse
meaning "festival, feast day or mass."</span></font></tt><br>
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