Pentecoste

English: Pentecost

Scots: Penthicost

Inherited from Old English Pentecosten, from Latin Pentecoste, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ).

Pentecost (specific day 49 days after Jesus' resurrection)


ferie

English: ferie (obsolete)

From Old French ferie, from Medieval Latin fēria; compare feyre.


newe

From Old English nīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *niwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos. More at new.

Wið-uten ðe læche ðe loceð after mannes ikynde, þe newe oðer elde, and ðe wrihte his timber to keruen after ðare mone, ðe is ikyndelich þing; elles hit is al ȝedwoll.


yol

English: Yule

Middle Scots: Yule, Ȝule, Yuill, Ȝuill

Scots: Yule

From Old English ġeōl, from Proto-Germanic *jeulō, plural of *jehwlą.

forþi þis ȝol ouerȝede and þe ȝere after / and vche ſeſoun ſerlepes ſued after oþer / after cryſtenmaſſe com þe crabbed lentoun /

a. 1375, Gawain Poet, Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt, stanza 22, page 97r, lines 500–502:

And this Christmastide went, and the year with (it); / each season followed alone after the last. / After Christmas came spiteful Lent, […]


Pask

English: Pasch (archaic)

Scots: Pace

Borrowed from Old French pasches, from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésaḥ).


lenten

English: Lent, Lenten

Scots: Lentrin, Lentern

From Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn.


weke-day

English: weekday

From Old English wicdæġ. Equivalent to weke (“week”) + day (“day”).


halyday

English: holiday

Scots: haliday

Yola: hollydie, holy die

From Old English hāliġdæġ; equivalent to holy + day.

A religious holiday or celebration (especially a Christian one)


Cristemasse

English: Christmas (see there for further descendants)

Scots: Christenmas

From Old English Cristes mæsse; equivalent to Criste + messe.


Nowel

English: Noel, noel

From Middle French noel or Anglo-Norman noel, from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”).


Schyre Thursday

English: Sheer Thursday (dated, with shire replaced by sheer)

Scots: Skyre Thuirsday (with schyre replaced by skyre)

The celebrations that occur at Maundy Thursday.


Paske day

Scots: Pace Day


bente mone

enm-noun

bente mone (plural bente mones or bente monen)

bente mones (plural)
bente monen (plural)

(astronomy) A crescent moon, either waxing or waning.


newe mone

newe mone (plural newe mones or newe monen)

English: new moon

(astronomy) The phase of the moon when in conjunction with the sun; the new moon.


ful mone

ful mone (plural ful mones or ful monen)

full moon

(astronomy) The phase of the moon when in opposition with the sun; the full moon.


in þe newe of þe mone

(astronomy) During the time when the moon is in conjunction with the sun; during the new moon.


at þe fulle of þe mone

(astronomy) During the time when the moon is in opposition with the sun; during the full moon.


olde mone

olde mone (plural olde mones or olde monen)

English: old moon

(astronomy) A moon in its final phase before new; a waning crescent moon.


yong mone

yong mone (plural yong mones or yong monen)

English: young moon

(astronomy) A moon in its first phase after new; a waxing crescent moon.


yong sonne

(astronomy) In the first quarter of the solar year, after the vernal equinox.


Aschewednysday

English: Ash Wednesday

Scots: Ess-Wadensday

From asche (“burnt matter”) + Wednesday.


kalende

English: calends

From Old English calend, a singular form back-formed from Latin kalendae, calendae.

The fyrste daye of a monthe hath the name of Kalendis.

1398, Bartholomew de Glanville, translated by John Trevisa, De Proprietatibus Rerum, Ch. ix, Section xxi, p. 359:

14th century, John Trevisa translating Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum, folio 119

The canicular days begin on the fifteenth kalends of August [i.e., July 18th] and end on the nones [i.e., 5th] of September, and so they are even fifty as it is said there.

Þe caniculer dayes biginnyth in þe fiftenþe kalendis of august and endiþ in þe nonis of septembris, and so þey ben euene fifty as it is seide þere.

Calends, the first day of a month, particularly a Roman month.


lawday

A day when a local court meets, especially the court for each of the hundreds (administrative divisions)


Childermasse day

English: Childermas (day)


concepcioun

English: conception

Borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō.


Michelmasse

English: Michaelmas

Scots: Michaelmas

Yola: Michaulmas


trinite

English: Trinity

Scots: treenity, Tarnty

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite, from Latin trīnitās, trīnitātem; equivalent to trine + -ite.


mydsomer

English: midsummer, Midsummer

Middle Scots: midsomer, midsymmer

Scots: midsimmer

Inherited from Old English midsumor, from Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz; equivalent to myd- + somer.

Midsummer; the summer solstice or the period around it.

Midsummer Day/the Nativity of John the Baptist.


mydwinter

English: midwinter

Inherited from Old English midwinter, from Proto-West Germanic *midiwintru, from Proto-Germanic *midjawintruz; equivalent to myd- + winter.