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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Whitsuntide
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 13:56:04 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de