Pinkster
noun
Pink·ster
variants or Pinxter
ˈpiŋ(k)stə(r),
-ŋzt-
plural -s
: whitsuntide
Word History
Etymology
Dutch pinkster from Middle Dutch pinxter, alteration of pinxten; akin to Old Frisian pinxtera Whitsuntide, Old Saxon pinkoston, Middle High German pfingesten; all from a prehistoric continental West Germanic word borrowed from Gothic paintekuste Pentecost, from Greek pentēkostē