Where does “Lammastide” come from?
Lammastide (English) comes from English Lammas, from Old English hlafmæsse, from Old English mæsse, from Vulgar Latin messa, from Latin missa, from Latin missum, from Latin mittō, from Proto-Italic meitō — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
Ancestry of “Lammastide”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Lammas | A former festival held on 1st August celebrating... |
| 2 | Old English | hlafmæsse | loaf mass, harvest festival |
| 3 | Old English | mæsse | mass |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | messa | Eucharist, dismissal; Eucharist; dismissal;... |
| 5 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 6 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 7 | Latin | mittō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | meitō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |