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Anonymous United States No.216685542 [Report] >>216687849 >>216688317 >>216688492 >>216689790 >>216690141 >>216690375 >>216690416 >>216690428
Among European languages, the Germanic family (English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian) are the only ones whose weekday names still directly reference pagan gods.
Anonymous Italy No.216685682 [Report] >>216686075 >>216687816
In Italian is the same except for saturday and sunday
Anonymous France No.216686075 [Report]
>>216685682
Anonymous United States No.216687816 [Report]
>>216685682
Sabbath day is crazy
Anonymous United States No.216687849 [Report] >>216688159 >>216688418
>>216685542 (OP)
Romance languages do too
Anonymous United States No.216688159 [Report] >>216688344 >>216690534
>>216687849
no they don't
Anonymous Estonia No.216688317 [Report] >>216688471 >>216688517
>>216685542 (OP)
we still use pagan names, friday is named after Freya (a goddess)

Saturday can be translated "washing day"

Thursday in English is Thor
Anonymous Sweden No.216688344 [Report]
>>216688159
they do
only exception I can be arsed to find seems to be Portuguese
Anonymous United States No.216688418 [Report]
>>216687849
Lundi (Luna/Selene), Mardi (Mars/Ares), Mecredi (Mercury/Hermes, Jeudi (Jupiter/Zeus), Vendredi (Vénus/Aphrodite)

Only Portuguese replaced the names of the pagan gods with something equivalent to «market day»
Anonymous United States No.216688471 [Report] >>216688632
>>216688317
Moon day, Tyrs day, Wodin’s day, Thors day, Frigg day, Saturn day, Sun day
Anonymous Sweden No.216688492 [Report]
>>216685542 (OP)
They're actually old loan translations from Latin though. Thursday was originally the day of Jupiter, which got translated to a similar god, Thor.
Anonymous Sweden No.216688517 [Report]
>>216688317
>friday is named after Freya (a goddess)
it's 'day of Frigg', not Frøyja
but honestly pretty cool that Estonian has 'reede' and 'laupäev' (< freadagR, < laug)
Anonymous Sweden No.216688632 [Report]
>>216688471
Tewesday, Wedensday, for more accurate reflexes, and Friday is fine the way it is
Anonymous United Kingdom No.216689790 [Report]
>>216685542 (OP)
Only English recognises EASTER and YULE
Anonymous Russian Federation No.216690141 [Report] >>216690822
>>216685542 (OP)
>Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnertag, Freitag, Samstag, Sontag
Do you mean all of these before '-tag' are the names of the Gods?
Anonymous Russian Federation No.216690375 [Report] >>216690567 >>216690822
>>216685542 (OP)
Why do they use Gods names anyway?
Here it is -
Пoнeдeльник - Ponedelnik - "Po" - prefix, "nedelya" - old name for "Sunday", so it means "after Sunday"
Bтopник - Vtornik - from "vtoriy" - the second one
Cpeдa - Sreda - literally "the middle"
Чeтвepг - Chetverg - from "chetvertiy" - the fourth one
Пятницa - Pyatintsa - from "pyatiy" - the fifth one
Cyббoтa - Subbota - yeah, this one is retarded comes from Sabbath.
Bocкpeceньe - Voskresenie - the resurrection, idk why it is called like that. In old Russian it was "nedelya"
Anonymous Italy No.216690416 [Report]
>>216685542 (OP)
Not true, italian days of the week are also named after roman divinities
Anonymous Poland No.216690428 [Report]
>>216685542 (OP)
All except for the bath day, they replaced it out of shame.
Anonymous Italy No.216690534 [Report] >>216690853
>>216688159
Lunedì = moon day
Martedì = Mars' day
Mercoledì = Mercury's day
Giovedì = Jupiter's day
Venerdì = Venus' day
Sabato = sabbath
Domenica = the Lord's day
Anonymous Poland No.216690567 [Report] >>216690655
>>216690375
Poniedziałek (After-Sunday), Wtorek (Next), Środa (Middle), Czwartek (Fourth), Piątek (Fifth), Sobota (Sabbat), Niedziela (Don't-work).
Meaningwise Slavic day names are kind of grug tier.
Anonymous Poland No.216690601 [Report] >>216690684
how the fuck is jewish Sobota present in so many languages
Anonymous Russian Federation No.216690655 [Report]
>>216690567
Yeah, "votriy" can be also like "the next one".
Anonymous Russian Federation No.216690684 [Report]
>>216690601
Jews refuse to do anything on Saturdays and it pissed everyone off, I guess.
Anonymous Sweden No.216690822 [Report]
>>216690141
>Do you mean all of these before '-tag' are the names of the Gods?
Dienstag*, Donnerstag, and Freitag, yes

*= Dienstag has an uncertain etymology, but likely pertains to Thingsus

>>216690375
>Why do they use Gods names anyway?
Calcques from Latin. The idea of naming the days after deities was copied from the Romans, but Germanic peoples used their own gods, of course. There's clear cut evidence that North Germanic weekdays are calqued or adapted from West Germanic such, and are also very recent additions to the language (Old Norse at the time), meaning this idea first spread to southern tribes, before reaching its way north.
Anonymous United States No.216690853 [Report] >>216690901
>>216690534
wow that’s so similar to Spanish
Anonymous Italy No.216690901 [Report]
>>216690853
French is very similar too
Sister languages and all