Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
Names of Easter as a description of the holiday than an actual name is Tensae (Ge'ez: ትንሣኤ) which means "to rise". While Fasika (ፋሲካ) is a more widespread and traditional term for Easter. Some non-Indo-European languages have unique etymologies for Easter. Some Slavic languages call it the Great Night, such as the Czech "Velikonoce" from "veliký" (great) + "-o-" + "noc" (night). In Hungarian, Easter is "húsvét"—literally, "taking the meat," a reference to traditional customs of abstaining entirely from eating meat during Lent. In Finnish language Easter is "Pääsiäinen" which implies 'release' or 'liberation'. The word was created by Finnish bishop and bible