[Verginius Rufus]

The term Easter is said to come from that of an old Teutonic goddess of spring, but that means nothing. It just means that the Anglo-Saxons, after they converted, used an old pagan word with a new Christian meaning.

Likewise with Lent. Originally it just meant "spring"--it is connected to the word "lengthen"--spring is the time when the days are getting longer. In Dutch, one of the most closely related languages to English, "lente" means spring.

[piasa]

Funny how no one ever asks where the old pagan goddess of spring got the name.

Could it be from the word for the direction from which the sun rises?

That doesn’t mean that terms that sprang from the earliest word derived from each other, or that all spring celebrations have the same origin.

Or that a 2000 year old Middle Eastern religion sprang from a younger pagan culture in Europe.

[Cronos]

There was no such goddess.

If someone writes a guess 300 years after paganism died out and no one else mentioned it, that was a false guess