Pasch

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The Word of the Day for April 8 is: 

Pasch   \PASK\  noun
    *1 : Easter
     2 : Passover

Example sentence:
     "Miss Ina will not be for burying him in the kirkyard, but 
in Isle-Monach, where my Donald would be seeing ghosts at Yule 
and Pasch." (Walter C. Smith, "Kildrostan") 

Did you know?
     Easter is sometimes called the Christian Passover, and 
Passover the Jewish Easter. Given that, it's not surprising 
that "Pasch" comes from the Hebrew word for "Passover" --
"pesah." That word, in turn, is from Hebrew "pasah," meaning "to 
pass over." One interpretation (though not the only one) is that 
the word refers to the final plague before the Jews were 
permitted to leave Egypt (the Exodus commemorated by the 
celebration of Passover), in which God slew the firstborn sons 
of the Egyptians but passed over the Jewish households. "Pesah" 
became "pascha" in Greek, then "Pasch" in English, which, like a 
basket with two eggs, has held both a reference to Passover and 
to the Christian celebration of Christ's Resurrection since at 
least 1200.
 
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.