The story
- Hebrew · derived fromפֶּסַח
- Aramaic · derived fromפסחא
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπάσκα
- Russian · derived fromпа́ска
- Ukrainian · derived fromпа́ска
- English todaypaska
From Ukrainian па́ска (páska) and Russian па́ска (páska), borrowing from Ancient Greek πάσκα (páska), phonetic variant of πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פסחא (pasḥa), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ). Doublet of Pasch, Pascha, paskha, and Pesach.
Words from the same roots
Hebrewפֶּסַח all →
passoverPesachPaschapasch
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.