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  • Kathleen Herbert says that ‘eostre’ in the Germanic languages means ‘from the east’ and is cognate with the word for ‘dawn’ in several Indo-European languages including Greek, Latin and Sanskrit Herbert 1994.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Carla 2008

  • Kathleen Herbert says that ‘eostre’ in the Germanic languages means ‘from the east’ and is cognate with the word for ‘dawn’ in several Indo-European languages including Greek, Latin and Sanskrit Herbert 1994.

    Eosturmonath (April): the early English calendar Carla 2008

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