Here’s The Origin History Of The Word “Easter”

Here’s the origin of the word “Easter” and why do we use this word to describe the eggiest holiday during the Spring season.

Why do Easter eggs a thing? Researchers said that the evidence suggests that “Easter” had all started in Medieval Europe, but it may not have originated with Christians.

Some early Christians said that Easter should coincide with the older Jewish celebration of Passover, but the general calculation in celebrating this day is still complicated.

A monk known as Venerable Bede had an interesting tale suggesting that the term “Easter” came after the goddess named “Eostre” representing spring and fertility.

The pagans were celebrating her in a month known as Eosturmonath or what we now call “April”.

A linguist named Gretchen McCulloch points out a tidy tale explaining the similarities of Easter trappings “The eggs and the bunnies, those are fertility things.”

Meanwhile, there some theory says that the word “Easter” comes from an old German word for east, which comes from older Latin word for ‘Dawn’.

However, European languages such as French explained that the word ‘Easter’ allegedly means the Hebrew word for Passover, the springtime holiday that commemorates the Jewish people’s freedom from slavery in Egypt.