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I don't know if it is. But here is the entymology of the word, according to
Easter - Wikipedia: (You can go to the site and look up the numerous references yourselves)
"The modern English term
Easter, cognate with modern Dutch
ooster and German
Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form
Ēastrun,
-on, or
-an; but also as
Ēastru,
-o; and
Ēastre or
Ēostre. The most widely accepted theory of the origin of the term is that it is derived from the name of an Old English goddess mentioned by the 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, who wrote that
Ēosturmōnaþ (Old English 'Month of Ēostre', translated in Bede's time as "Paschal month") was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says "was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month".
In Latin and Greek, the Christian celebration was, and still is, called
Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα), a word derived from Aramaic פסחא (
Paskha), cognate to Hebrew פֶּסַח (
Pesach). The word originally denoted the Jewish festival known in English as Passover, commemorating the Jewish Exodus from slavery in Egypt. As early as the 50s of the 1st century, Paul, writing from Ephesus to the Christians in Corinth, applied the term to Christ, and it is unlikely that the Ephesian and Corinthian Christians were the first to hear Exodus 12 interpreted as speaking about the death of Jesus, not just about the Jewish Passover ritual. In most of the non-English speaking world, the feast is known by names derived from Greek and Latin
Pascha. Pascha is also a name by which Jesus himself is remembered in the Orthodox Church, especially in connection with his resurrection and with the season of its celebration."
