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 the term for Easter is derived from Latin. In the Brittonic languages this has yielded Welsh "Pasg", Cornish and Breton "Pask". In Goidelic languages the word was borrowed before these languages had re-developed the /p/ sound and as a result the initial /p/ was replaced with /k/. This yielded Irish "Cáisc", Gaelic "Càisg" and Manx "Caisht". These terms are normally used with the definite article in Goidelic languages, causing lenition in all cases: "An Cháisc", "A' Chàisg" and "Yn Chaisht". In Dutch, Easter is known as "Pasen" and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as "påske" (Danish and