Where does “Maundy Thursday” come from?
Maundy Thursday (English) comes from Old French mandé, from Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch manda, from Proto-West Germanic mandu, from Portuguese Manuel, from Spanish Manuel, from Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל, from Hebrew עִמָּנוּ אֵל — God is with us.
Ancestry of “Maundy Thursday”, step by step