Names for Christmas Around the World: A Festive “Where Words Came From”
Beyond “Navidad” and “Noel”. Stay with me till the end, because these names get weirder as we go!
10 min readDec 7, 2023
The “Christ” in Christmas
The Anglo-Saxon Cristes mæsse simply means “Christ’s mass”. Other Christian feasts with this “-mas” ending are…
