Editing Good Friday (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''Good Friday'' comes from the sense '[[wikt:pious|pious]], holy' of the word ''good''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yourdictionary.com/good-friday |title=Good Friday – Definition of Good Friday in the American Heritage Dictionary |publisher=Yourdictionary.com |date=4 April 2014 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430172455/https://www.yourdictionary.com/good-friday |url-status=live }}</ref> Less common examples of expressions based on this obsolete sense of ''good'' include 'the good book" for the Bible, 'good tide' for Christmas or [[Shrovetide]], and [[Good Wednesday]] for the Wednesday in Holy Week.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/79925#eid2855682 |title=Home: Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oed.com |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=27 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227231406/https://www.oed.com/start;jsessionid=AC6A96D110D79C6AD2FEA1CCDC2A0C2C?authRejection=true&url=%2Fview%2FEntry%2F79925#eid2855682 |url-status=live }}</ref> With regard to the usual sense of the word ''[[wikt:good|good]]'', "Christians believe that Jesus's death on the cross was the ultimate sacrifice for humanity's sins, saving mankind from death."<ref name="Riggleman2025">{{cite web |last1=Riggleman |first1=Heather |title=What is Good Friday and What is the Meaning of "Good"? |url=https://www.crosswalk.com/special-coverage/easter/why-is-it-called-good-friday.html |website=[[Crosswalk.com]] |access-date=18 April 2025 |language=en |date=11 April 2025}}</ref> 

A common [[folk etymology]] analyses ''Good Friday'' incorrectly as a corruption of ''God Friday'', of a type similar to the (linguistically correct) derivation of ''[[wiktionary: goodbye|goodbye]]'' from a contraction of 'God be with ye'.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MptAAAAAYAAJ&dq=good+friday&pg=PA295 | title=Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge | last1=Chambers | first1=Robert | date=7 April 1890 }}</ref> In Old English, the day was called ''Long Friday'' ({{lang|ang|langa frigedæg}} {{IPA|ang|ˈlɑŋɡɑ ˈfriːjedæj|}})—referring to the lengthy observances of fasting and religious services, making it a day of extended devotion—and equivalents of this term are still used in Scandinavian languages and Finnish.<ref>{{cite web |website=runeberg.org |title=Svensk etymologisk ordbok 434 |url=https://runeberg.org/svetym/0522.html |access-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025212047/http://runeberg.org/svetym/0522.html |url-status=live }}</ref>