Thread 216685542

Among European languages, the Germanic family (English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian) are the only ones whose weekday names still directly reference pagan gods.

In Italian is the same except for saturday and sunday

>>216685682
Sabbath day is crazy

>>216685542 (OP)
Romance languages do too

>>216687849
no they don't

>>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

>>216688159
they do
only exception I can be arsed to find seems to be Portuguese

>>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»

>>216688317
Moon day, Tyrs day, Wodin’s day, Thors day, Frigg day, Saturn day, Sun day

>>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.

>>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)

>>216688471
Tewesday, Wedensday, for more accurate reflexes, and Friday is fine the way it is

>>216685542 (OP)
Only English recognises EASTER and YULE

>>216685542 (OP)
>Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnertag, Freitag, Samstag, Sontag
Do you mean all of these before '-tag' are the names of the Gods?

>>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"

>>216685542 (OP)
Not true, italian days of the week are also named after roman divinities

>>216685542 (OP)
All except for the bath day, they replaced it out of shame.

>>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

>>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.

how the fuck is jewish Sobota present in so many languages

>>216690567
Yeah, "votriy" can be also like "the next one".

>>216690601
Jews refuse to do anything on Saturdays and it pissed everyone off, I guess.

>>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.

>>216690534
wow that’s so similar to Spanish

>>216690853
French is very similar too
Sister languages and all