30-04-2015

Beltaine in Baltimore

summer (n.1)
"hot season of the year," Old English sumor "summer," from Proto-Germanic *sumur- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German sumar, Old Frisian sumur, Middle Dutch somer, Dutch zomer, German Sommer), from PIE root *sem- (2) "summer" (cognates: Sanskrit sama "season, half-year," Avestan hama "in summer," Armenian amarn "summer," Old Irish sam, Old Welsh ham, Welsh haf "summer").
summer (n.2)
"horizontal bearing beam," late 13c., from Anglo-French sumer, Old French somier "main beam," originally "pack horse," from Vulgar Latin *saumarius, from Late Latin sagmarius "pack horse," from sagma "packsaddle" (see sumpter).

Beltaine 'Fires for Bel'

Baäl [naam van de vruchtbaarheidsgod] {Baal 1285} < hebreeuws baʽal [eigenaar, heer, meester, echtgenoot], van het ww. bāʽal [bezitten, beheersen], vgl. akkadisch bēlu [echtgenoot], verwant met bêlu [heersen, beschikken over], arabisch baʽl [eigenaar, meester, echtgenoot].

tine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old English tind "spike, beak, prong, tooth of a fork," a general Germanic word (compare Old High German zint "sharp point, spike," Old Norse tindr "tine, point, top, summit," German Zinne "pinnacle"), of unknown origin
teine fir. /tʲenə/
pl. teintean
fire 
teine fir. /tʲenə/
unch.
1 the letter T
2 (archaic) (common) gorse, whin, furze (ulex europaeus)
teine second, other, another (estonian), girl (suoman), 


    • Thorny evergreen shrub
    • A fire-climax plant, which readily catches fire but re-grows from the roots after the fire
    • Gaspeldoorn contains poisonous Cytisine
    • Gorse is present in the heraldry of Brittain and Scotland 
    • National flower of Galicia


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