Good Friday Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Etymology == The term ''Good Friday'' comes from the sense 'pious, holy' of the word ''good''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yourdictionary.com/good-friday |title=Good Friday – Definition of Good Friday in the American Heritage Dictionary |publisher=Yourdictionary.com |date=4 April 2014 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430172455/https://www.yourdictionary.com/good-friday |url-status=live }}</ref> Less common examples of expressions based on this obsolete sense of ''good'' include 'the good book" for the Bible, 'good tide' for Christmas or [[Shrovetide]], and [[Good Wednesday]] for the Wednesday in Holy Week.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/79925#eid2855682 |title=Home: Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oed.com |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=27 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227231406/https://www.oed.com/start;jsessionid=AC6A96D110D79C6AD2FEA1CCDC2A0C2C?authRejection=true&url=%2Fview%2FEntry%2F79925#eid2855682 |url-status=live }}</ref> A common [[folk etymology]] incorrectly analyzes ''Good Friday'' as a corruption of ''God Friday'', similar to the linguistically correct description of ''[[wiktionary: goodbye|goodbye]]'' as a contraction of 'God be with ye'.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MptAAAAAYAAJ&dq=good+friday&pg=PA295 | title=Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge | last1=Chambers | first1=Robert | date=7 April 1890 }}</ref> In Old English, the day was called ''Long Friday'' ({{lang|ang|langa frigedæg}} {{IPA-ang|ˈlɑŋɡɑ ˈfriːjedæj|}}), and equivalents of this term are still used in Scandinavian languages and Finnish.<ref>{{cite web |website=runeberg.org |title=Svensk etymologisk ordbok 434 |url=https://runeberg.org/svetym/0522.html |access-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025212047/http://runeberg.org/svetym/0522.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page