I thought it might mean 'the birth of' or something like that. Because I was wondering if lets say I could call my birthday 'digested_cat89mas' or if my name were Charles: 'Charlesmas'.
Would this work?
2006-12-17 06:14:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
u mean mas for abang
2006-12-17 06:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mass... Catholic mass, meeting on Sundays. Pagan Mass, where the Idea of catholic mas came from. Unless it was the word Mast then a whole lot has been lost in translation.
But yes that might work.
2006-12-17 06:23:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. In Dutch it is Kerst-misse, in Latin Dies Natalis, whence comes the French Noël, and Italian Il natale; in German Weihnachtsfest, from the preceeding sacred vigil. The term Yule is of disputed origin. It is unconnected with any word meaning "wheel". The name in Anglo-Saxon was geol, feast: geola, the name of a month (cf. Icelandic iol a feast in December).
Christmas is from the Old English words Cristes moesse, 'the mass or festival of Christ'.
2006-12-17 06:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by AMTV 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mas means mass, as in the catholic version of congregational meeting of believers.
Christ´s Mass
2006-12-17 06:18:14 · answer #4 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means "mass," as in "Mass of Christ."
2006-12-17 06:16:56 · answer #5 · answered by Nicole B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Massive scam.
2006-12-17 06:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋