Comments on: Etymology as a Battlefield: Whitsunday http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/whitsunday/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Godzjumenas Seminiskeengd http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/whitsunday/#comment-155997 Godzjumenas Seminiskeengd Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:14:31 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=6494#comment-155997 In the " Etymologisch Woordenboek" (Ed.Van Dale Utrecht/Antwerpen 1990)I find the following( I translate): >> MiddleDutch"witdonresdach"( Thursday before Easter), OldEnglish "hwita sunnandaeg" and OldNorse "hvitasunnadagr", so called because on that day the reconciled penitents, clothed in white, were readmitted into the community of the church and were allowed to celebrate Easter. << In Belgium and the Netherlands we celebrate "Wittedonderdag" (i.e.Whitthursday"). The English word "Whitsunday" has no direct equivalent in Dutch. In the ” Etymologisch Woordenboek” (Ed.Van Dale Utrecht/Antwerpen 1990)I find the following( I translate): >> MiddleDutch”witdonresdach”( Thursday before Easter), OldEnglish “hwita sunnandaeg” and OldNorse “hvitasunnadagr”, so called because on that day the reconciled penitents, clothed in white, were readmitted into the community of the church and were allowed to celebrate Easter. <<
In Belgium and the Netherlands we celebrate "Wittedonderdag" (i.e.Whitthursday"). The English word "Whitsunday" has no direct equivalent in Dutch.

]]> By: Gary http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/whitsunday/#comment-155704 Gary Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:38:38 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=6494#comment-155704 Sorry. I sent before checking. Their Whitsunday article says what everybody else says--that Whitsunday is Pentecost, and speculates that there was a special baptismal ceremony, analogous to the Easter one, at the vigil of Pentecost, so that there would be white garmnents to doff at Pentecost also. Sorry. I sent before checking. Their Whitsunday article says what everybody else says–that Whitsunday is Pentecost, and speculates that there was a special baptismal ceremony, analogous to the Easter one, at the vigil of Pentecost, so that there would be white garmnents to doff at Pentecost also.

]]> By: Gary http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/whitsunday/#comment-155699 Gary Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:22:12 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=6494#comment-155699 The Catholic encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01251b.htm points out that the Sunday after Easter is actually dominica in albis deponendis (the day you take off the white baptismal garment that you put on when you were baptised during the Easter midnight celebration which includes a baptismal ritual) It says that Whitsunday is the Sunday after Pentecost, rather than Pentecost itself, and speculates that the name derives from a similar ritual associated with Pentecost. The Catholic encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01251b.htm
points out that the Sunday after Easter is actually dominica in albis deponendis (the day you take off the white baptismal garment that you put on when you were baptised during the Easter midnight celebration which includes a baptismal ritual)

It says that Whitsunday is the Sunday after Pentecost, rather than Pentecost itself, and speculates that the name derives from a similar ritual associated with Pentecost.

]]> By: Sharon Chmielarz http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/whitsunday/#comment-154877 Sharon Chmielarz Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:47:05 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=6494#comment-154877 Referring to your comments re adverbs on a recent MPR program: I agree with you, however, notice how powerful the adverb is (or is it a shadow of a once separable prefix?) in these lines from Keats: "O Moon! the oldest shades 'mong oldest trees Feel palpitations when thou lookest in: Referring to your comments re adverbs on a recent MPR program:

I agree with you, however, notice how powerful the adverb is (or is it a shadow of a once separable prefix?) in these lines from Keats:

“O Moon! the oldest shades ‘mong oldest trees
Feel palpitations when thou lookest in:

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