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Easter Breton Phrases
Pask
Easter is called "Pask" in Breton. The phrase to know first is "Pask laouen!" (Happy Easter!).
Easter is Pask in Breton, and the greeting is Pask laouen!, "happy Easter". Below are the greeting and the words in it. Each phrase comes with a short note on when to use it.
Greetings
Pask laouen!
Happy Easter!
The Easter greeting.
Useful words
Pask
Easter
The plural Paskoù is also used for Easter.
laouen
happy
The word in the greeting, as in Nedeleg laouen.
The history of Pask
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox, so its date moves between March and April. The Breton Pask goes back through Middle Breton Pasq and Old Breton Pasc to Church Latin pascha; it is cognate with Welsh Pasg and Cornish Pask. Laouen, happy, is related to Cornish lowen and Welsh llawen.
Common questions
How do you say Happy Easter in Breton?
Pask laouen!
Easter in the other Celtic languages
Further reading
Breton is on blas. now
Grammar, mutations, vocabulary, and reading with spaced repetition. The Breton course is in the blas. app now.
Start learning BretonBreton phrases for the year ahead
Breton phrases for everyday occasions
Sources
Every phrase and fact on this page was checked against the sources below. Last checked 2026-10-20.
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- Geriafurch Breton dictionaries (TermOfis, Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg)
- Tatoeba: Tatoeba #5400566 by MacaGhallag, CC BY 2.0 FR
- Apertium Breton dictionary (apertium-bre), as stored in blas. course data: data/content/breton/lexicon.json forms["pask laouen"]
- Geriafurch Breton dictionaries (TermOfis, Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg)
Credit: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.