Pasch

Pronunciation

• IPA: en, /ˈpæsk/

Origin

From , Passover, Easter, From , from , from

Originally < post-classical Latin pascha (see below); subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman and Old French pasche, paske, pask (c1140 in sense ‘Easter’, c1165 in sense ‘Passover’; attested earlier (late 10th cent.) as plural nouns paschas Easter, pasches Passover; French pâques Easter, pasque Passover) < post-classical Latin pascha Passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal (Vetus Latina), Easter (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < Hellenistic Greek πάσχα passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal (Septuagint, New Testament), Easter (Christian writers from the 2nd cent. a.d.) < Aramaic pisḥā Passover fesival, Passover sacrifice, Passover meal (emphatic form of pasaḥ to pass over; compare Syriac peṣḥā Passover, Easter, reinterpreted by folk etymology as an emphatic form of pṣaḥ to rejoice) < Hebrew pesaḥ Passover (see Pesach n.) < pāsaḥ to pass or spring over (Exodus 12:13, etc.). Compare post-biblical Hebrew pisĕḥā Passover, modern Hebrew pasĕḥā Easter (both influenced by Aramaic). Compare pace n.2, fase n., Pesach n.

Older Scots and northern English forms may also show influence from Scandinavian languages; compare Old Icelandic páskar , Old Swedish paska , paskar (Swedish påsk ), Old Danish paska , paschæ (Danish påske ).

Compare also Old Occitan pasca , (plural) pascas , Spanish pascua (1090), Italian pasqua Easter (1305–6; earlier in this sense as pasca (1114); also attested in more general sense of ‘Christian festival’ (1240–6 as ‘Pentecost’)), Passover (a1342), Portuguese páscoa (13th cent.); Old Frisian pāscha , Middle Dutch paeschen , paschen (Dutch pasen ), Old Saxon pāscha (Middle Low German pāscha , pāsche , pāschen , German regional (Low German) pâschen , pâsken ), Middle High German pasche , Gothic paska ; Old Russian, Russian pasxa (compare paskha n.).

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Noun