*Āsteron
The theonym *Āsteron is reconstructed from Old Saxon. She is a cognate to *Ēastre (Old English) and *Ôstara (Old High German), linguistic siblings stemming from a common origin. An Old Saxon equivalent of the spring goddess named *Āsteron may also be reconstructed from the term asteronhus, which is translated by most scholars as 'Easter-house', which would parallel the Medieval Flemish Paeshuys ('Easter-house').
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 CE
- Attested period
- 700 – 900
- Historical notes
- Attested in Old Saxon texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- H₂éwsōs, *haéusōs, matronae Austriahenae, Jutrobog, Jastrzebog, Jastra, *Austrōn, Uṣas, Eos, Aurora, Aušrinė, *Ēastre, *Ôstara, Ēastre
- child of
- Austrō(n)
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The theonym has been reconstructed as *Ēastre (Old English), *Ôstara (Old High German) and *Āsteron (Old Saxon). These are cognates – linguistic siblings stemming from a common origin. An Old Saxon equivalent of the spring goddess named *Āsteron may also be reconstructed from the term asteronhus, which is translated by most scholars as 'Easter-house'”
#18201 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Old Saxon: *Āsteron, possibly attested in the name asteronhus ('Easter-house').”
#18286 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5