fastelavn.
Shrovetide; the three days immediately preceding Lent—Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday—now especially Shrove Sunday
Meaning & usage
Shrovetide; the three days immediately preceding Lent—Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday—now especially Shrove Sunday
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle Low German vastelāvent (“Shrovetide; evening before Lent”), a compound of vasten (“Lent, fasting”) and āvent (“evening”), literally “the evening before Lent”. The first element is from Old Saxon *fastōn (“to fast”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *fastēn (“to fast”). Compare Danish fastelavn, Norwegian Nynorsk fastelavn, Faroese fastalávint and føstulávint, Swedish fastlag, Estonian vastlad, and Livonian vastālovā (“Shrovetide”).
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