Goda Austaradul=?utf-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=BE_?=allaim!

[Brian Smith]

To the best of my knowledge, the OHG form would be Ostarâ.

Per Grimm:

"We Germans to this day call April ostermonat, and ôstarmânoth is found as early 
as Eginhart (temp. Car. Mag.). The great christian festival, which usually falls 
in April or the end of March, bears in the oldest of OHG. remains the name 
ôstarâ gen. -ûn; it is mostly found in the plural, because two days (ôstartagâ, 
aostortagâ, Diut. 1, 266ª) were kept at Easter. This Ostarâ, like the AS. 
Eástre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship 
was so firmly rooted, that the christian teachers tolerated the name, and 
applied it to one of thier own grandest anniversaries."

Brian




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Would Ostara be the Old High German reconstructed form?




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