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From: guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whitsuntide
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:52:45 +0200
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Op 9/06/2025 om 15:56 schreef Christian Weisgerber:
> On 2025-06-09, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Just about all over now. Here it's still Whit Monday, a public holiday
>> in quite a few European countries; but that's just a modern extension of
>> Whit Sunday, a public holiday in a somewhat different list of European
>> countries, and, under its Greek name of Pentecost, in  Greece (of
>> course) and Iceland (?).
> German "Pfingsten" is also borrowed from medieval Latin "pentecoste"
> or such, but heavily reshaped.

D. *Pinksteren* < pinkster-[dag] < pincsten
In Antwerp etc. also
*Sinksen* < oF cinquiesme < mL cinquagesima

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guido wugi