To begin with, it is worth understanding why a week is called a “week”. The fact is that before, even before the adoption of Christianity, Sunday was called a week. And it was the first day of the week. However, later Sunday began to be considered the last day ending the week.
The word "week" comes from the combination "not to do", that is, to rest. It is wiser to rest after work (remember the Russian proverb “Done the job - walk boldly!”), Therefore, the most “loafing” day was the last. Today, starting the week on Monday is regulated by the International Organization for Standardization.
But first, it was the “week” (the day of the week, which later became “Sunday”) that began the seven-day period. Apparently, before the week (in the modern sense) was called not “week”, but “week” (in Bulgarian, by the way, even now “week” is called “week”). And then they called the week "week" (seven days from week to week - from Sunday to Sunday).
Origin of the names of the days of the week
Monday. The word "Monday" is derived from "after the week." Monday was the first day after Sunday, which was called "week" in ancient times. The root of the word is Monday. It is formed in a suffix way (suffix -nick-).
Tuesday- from the word "second". The second day after the "week" (this Sunday). Notice - not the second day of the week, but the second after the week. Root - second, suffix - nickname.
Wednesday- this word also came from Old Slavonic (like “week”, “Monday”, “Tuesday”). It has a common root with the words "heart", "middle". Please note that Wednesday is the middle of the week only if the week starts on Sunday. This day is between the first three days of the week and the last. Nowadays, when the week starts on Monday, "Wednesday" does not live up to its name.
Why was Wednesday not called “tretenik” (by analogy with “Tuesday”) or “treteinik” (although, according to some sources, it was “treteinik” that the environment was called in ancient times)? And remember the names of the fingers! The one in the middle is called the middle finger, not the third or some other. In ancient times, the middle was given special meaning (it’s not for nothing that “middle” and “heart” are the same root words).
Interestingly, in some other languages, the day of the week "Wednesday" is translated literally as "middle" (for example, in German Mittwoch).
Some researchers argue that Wednesday is not the middle of a seven-day week, but of a five-day one. Allegedly, at first the week consisted of five days, and then, due to the influence of the Christian church, two additional days were added to it.
Thursday, like "Tuesday", the word "Thursday" is formed in accordance with the ordinal number of the day of the week after Sunday. "Thursday" is formed from the common Slavic word "fourth", which, in turn, was formed from the word "fourth" in a suffixal way. Most likely, over time, the sound “t” fell out - the “four” remained, and gradually the sound “k” “voiced”, as it follows the sonorous (always sonorous) sound “p”. As a result, we have a day of the week called "Thursday".
With Friday everything is a little more complicated. Of course, the word is formed from the number "five" (the fifth day after the start of the week). But why not “Friday” or “Pyatak”? The fact is that even before the adoption of Christianity, the Slavic goddess Friday (related to the fifth day) was revered. Therefore, the fifth day was named after the goddess Friday, and not Friday.
Word Saturday came from Old Church Slavonic. Once it was borrowed from the Greek language (from the Greek Sabbaton). And it came into the Greek language from the Hebrew language (from sabbath - "the seventh day when you need to refrain from work"). Shabbat - this is how this Hebrew word is pronounced, meaning literally "peace", "rest".
By the way, the word "sabbath" has the same roots, so "Sabbath" and "sabbath" are related words. It is also interesting that not only in Russian the name of this day of the week comes from the Hebrew "Shabbat": in Spanish, and in Italian, and in French, the word for Saturday has the same origin. However, in many other languages. This is explained simply - the spread of the Christian religion influenced the dictionaries of many languages.
Sunday- this word, as already mentioned, has replaced the word "week". It arose, of course, after the adoption of Christianity in Russia. The word is derived from "resurrect". Formed in a suffix way. This is the day on which, according to the scriptures, Jesus was resurrected.
Monday- Monday (English) directly echoes the Moon - Moon, even more clearly Dies Lunae (Latin), Lundi (Fr.), el Lunes (Spanish), Lunedi (Italian). The names of Monday from northern languages, for example, Måndag (Sw.), Maanantai (Fin.), Mandag (Dan.) are associated with the Old German Mánadagr - the day of the moon. In Slavic languages, Monday has the meaning of the first day, or, according to one version, the day "after the week", since " A week" is an old Russian word for modern Sunday. In Hindi, Monday is Moon Day.
Tuesday- in the name of Tuesday Dies Martis (Latin), Mardi (French), el Martes (Spanish), Martedi (Italian) we easily recognize the planet Mars. In Tiistai (Fin.), Tuesday (English), Dienstag (German) and in other languages of this group, the name of the warlike ancient Germanic god Tiu (Tiu, Ziu), an analogue of Mars, is hidden. In Slavic languages, this day is unambiguously read as an ordinal number, i.e. it is the "second" day of the week. In Hindi, Tuesday is Mars Day.
Wednesday- Mercury is easily guessed in Dies Mercuri (Latin), le Mercredi (French), Mercoledi (Italian), el Mercoles (Spanish).
Wednesday (English) comes from Wodensday, meaning the day of Woden (Wotan). The same character is hidden in Onstag (Sw.), Woenstag (V.D.), Onsdag (D.). Woden is an unusual god, he is depicted as a tall, thin old man in a black cloak. This character became famous for the invention of the runic alphabet, which draws a direct parallel with the patron god of written and oral speech - Mercury. According to legend, Woden sacrificed one eye for the sake of knowledge. In the Slavic "Wednesday", "Wednesday", etc., as well as in Mittwoch (German), Keskeviikko (Finnish), the idea of the middle of the week is laid down. The old Russian name for the environment "tretiynik" is rarely found. Note that astrologically, Mercury is considered a middle, asexual planet - neither male nor female. In Hindi, Wednesday is Mercury Day.
Thursday- Latin Dies Jovis, Day of Jupiter, gave rise to Jeudi (French), Jueves (Spanish), Giovedi (Italian), but Thursday (English), Torstai (Finnish), Torsdag (Swedish), Donnerstag ( German), Torsdag (Dat.) and other similar ones have a direct connection with the ancient thunder god Thor, an analogue of Jupiter. In Slavic languages, Thursday, like Tuesday, has a purely numerical value of the fourth day. In Hindi, Thursday is Jupiter Day.
Friday- Venus is clearly visible in Vendredi (Fr.), Venerdi (Italian), a little muffled in Viernes (Spanish), while the English Friday, Fredag (Swedish), Freitag (German) has a parallel with the Scandinavian goddess of fertility and love Freya (Frigge), an analogue of the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus. In Slavic languages, this day means "fifth". In Hindi, Friday is Venus Day.
Saturday- the face of Saturn is clearly visible in Saturday (English) and Saturni (lat.). The Russian name "Saturday", el Sabado (Spanish), Sabato (Italian) and Samedi (French) goes back to the Hebrew "Shabbat", meaning "peace, rest". In this sense, one of the astrological meanings of Saturn successfully echoes Shabbat - immobility, concentration. Interestingly, the Slavic languages, for no apparent reason, are unanimous with Latin, their Saturday also comes from "Shabbat". Lauantai (Fin.), Lördag (Sw.), Loverdag (Dan.) are similar to the Old German Laugardagr and mean "ablution day", whence we learn that once a week the ancients washed themselves. In Hindi, Saturday is Saturn Day.
Sunday- Day of the Sun in Latin, English and German, in many languages this day is indicated by various variations of the word "Sun / Son" (Sun). Domingo (Spanish), Dimanche (Fr.), Domenica (Italian) in translation mean "Lord's Day" and are probably an overlay brought to Europe along with Christianity. The Russian "Sunday" appeared in the same way, replacing the old name for this day " A week", successfully preserved in other Slavic languages \u200b\u200b- Nedelya (Bol.), Ned ilya (Ukrainian), Nedele (Czech) and others. In Hindi, Sunday is the Day of the Sun.
*Note: The word viikko (week) in Finnish comes from the Gothic vikó.
Astrology in the service of the calendar. Mage Star.
For the convenience of calculations and time planning, ancient astronomers and astrologers, and earlier they were the same people, invented the Star of Mages, a kind of seven-pointed “calculator”. In this counting star, the planets are arranged in a circle starting from the slowest, Saturn, to the fastest, the Moon. The sequence of days of the week is calculated by the rays of the star clockwise. In addition to the days of the week, this scheme allows you to calculate the correspondence to the planets of 36-year periods, years, hours, and some other periods of time. The clock, for example, counts as follows: the 1st hour of Sunday belongs to the Sun, the 2nd to Venus, and so on along the perimeter of the star. I note that the 1st hour of any day in this system is the hour after sunrise, while the duration of the hour is 1/12 of the duration of daylight hours, i.e. time from sunrise to sunset. Night hours, by analogy, are equal to 1/12 of the duration of the dark time of the day. Continuing the calculation of the hours according to the scheme of the star, you will notice that the 1st hour of Monday will be under the Moon, the 1st hour of Tuesday under Mars, the 1st hour of Wednesday under Mercury, the 1st hour of Thursday under Jupiter, the 1st hour of Friday under Venus, 1st hour of Saturday under Saturn. The system is closed and logical.
About Saturday
This day, however, is the most extraordinary. Most languages have retained succession from the Hebrew "Shabbat" (rest, peace). In Arabic as-Sabat, Persian Shabbat, Georgian Shabati, not to mention the Slavic varieties of "Saturdays", similar motifs are heard .. Curiously, where did the Hebrew "Shabbat" itself come from? There is the following assumption, which you are free to accept or not. Perhaps this is only a play on words, but in my opinion it is necessary to take a closer look at the Sanskrit " shabda". This word is very popular in Sanskrit and in the Vedic culture in general, its root meaning is translated as "sacred sound", "primordial sound". Another translation of the word " shabda"-" The absolute, embodied in sound, word. "Impressive and suggests analogies, isn't it?
What day of the week is the first?
From the standpoint of materialistic realism, raising the question of the first day of the week makes no sense. Indeed, it does not matter at all which day of the week is considered the first, which is the second. The main thing, in this case, is to maintain a clear periodicity between working days and days off, so that week after week goes without confusing calendars, computer programs, etc. The question of recognizing this or that day as the first has primarily a cultural, historical and esoteric meaning. The question of the existence of biological meaning still remains unanswered.
It has already been mentioned that for those who accept the Old Testament, the answer should be unequivocal - Sunday. This day was the day of the beginning of Creation and, from this point of view, the Jews are absolutely right in marking Sunday as the first day, and Saturday as the last. In Europe, and more precisely in Rome until the II century. n. e also adhered to this custom, until the emperor Hadrian forbade Christians to celebrate the Sabbath. It was then that the day of rest was moved to Sunday, and in 321 the Roman emperor Constantine legalized this day as a weekly public holiday. Gradually, the consciousness of Christians came to terms with a clear departure from the similarity to the biblical order of days in the week. Now the primacy of Sunday remains only in the internal church Christian liturgical life, while the real weekly rhythm in most countries of the world begins on Monday.
From an astrological point of view, it is natural and logical to start counting working days from Sundays, because the day of the Sun looks more creative, it seems to be more cheerful than on Monday, the day of the unstable Moon. This is exactly the case when there is absolute agreement between astrology and religion.
Perhaps the violation of the cosmic rhythm led to the appearance of the Russian proverb: "Monday is a hard day"?
Hypothesis about the ancient week.
Everyone who takes up the topic of analyzing the week in the Russian language inevitably runs into an insoluble contradiction. Before we set off on this path and approach the same locked gates, I propose to refresh ourselves a little with historical facts.
So, the concept of "Sunday" appeared in Russia after the adoption of Christianity and, at first, only one day was called Sunday - the day the Easter celebration began. Only in the 16th century Sunday appeared as a separate day " weeks"- so they called the week at that time. About the origin of the word" week"It is a little more difficult to judge. Was it originally Russian or did it come along with the alphabet of Cyril and Methodius? If this word, let's say, was part of the pagan ancient Slavic calendar, then why is it so firmly included in the Christian church language? The current Orthodox calendar consists entirely of weeks If, however, we take into account that so far week is called a week in Bulgaria and that the oldest Slavic Cyrillic writings (IX-X centuries) were also discovered on Bulgarian territory, then a warm south breeze blowing from Bulgaria begins to be felt. And when it becomes known that the Greek brothers Cyril and Methodius from childhood owned, in addition to Greek, the ancient Bulgarian language, then the breeze turns into a wind. So, the week, most likely, from Bulgaria.
Let's go further. According to one of the popular versions, the old Russian " a week"(like a day) was called so because on this day they" did nothing ", rested. And on weekly means it follows after"weeks" (i.e. Sundays), Tuesday - the second day after the "week" ... Wednesday, being by undeniable meaning middle week, indicates that the start of the week falls on a Sunday. Isn't this explanation logical? It is curious that the very word "week" is a tracing paper from the Greek apracos, i.e. non-doing, non-efficient, idle.
In other words, most likely, the very word "week" was introduced into Russian culture from the same place as Sunday.
Is it possible to assume the existence of another, more ancient week among the Slavs? Let's apply the following logical move. It is clear that Tuesday, Thursday and Friday clearly contain the ordinal meaning of the numeral in all Slavic languages. Even the environment, as is known from old sources, had an ordinal name - third party. Only perverted logic can consider the second day of the week, Tuesday, as the third, and the fourth day, Thursday, as the fifth day. If, however, we agree that Monday is the first day, Tuesday is the second, and so on, then there is a problem with Wednesday, which is not in the middle of the week! Thursday becomes the middle of the week, which is illogical on all counts.
Is there a way out of this contradiction?
There is. We have a task ahead of us. How to make Wednesday in the middle, and Tuesday the second, Thursday the fourth, Friday the fifth day of the week? There is only one way to do this. It should be noted that the ancient week among the Slavs, and in Russia in particular, was 5 days! In this case, Wednesday will be in the middle and the ordinal names of the days of the week will correspond to their order. The hypothesis (unless it turns out to be a reinvented wheel) is that the ancient week was 5 days, and the other two days, the week-end so to speak, Saturday (Shabbat) and a week-Sunday fastened to the Russian language later.
Epilogue
Was the ancient week 5 days? If so, then something akin to the five-day rhythm is seen in the eastern elements - metal, water, wood, fire and earth. The 5-day week also has an astronomical explanation, perhaps even more logical than the 7-day week. Let's look at the sky. We see that the Moon and the Sun in their size cannot be compared with the remaining 5 planets. From the point of view of an earthly observer, the Moon and the Sun are out of competition, it is not for nothing that they are called luminaries. The value of the luminaries is an order of magnitude greater than that of any of the other visible planets. The luminaries have a more important role not only in the sky, but also in the symbolism of calendar periods.
It has long been known that the calendar, in addition to its direct purpose, plays the role of an ideological tool. Strengthening their own power, Chinese, Japanese, Roman emperors, leaders of the French revolution introduced their calendars. I am convinced that the structure of the week should be subject exclusively to natural cosmic rhythms, the calendar should not be a tool for strengthening any ideology. A person must understand what cosmic rhythm he beats weekly. The science of the future will face the task of determining the most optimal cosmic rhythm of life for human health. It may turn out that the 7-day period will remain the best, maybe the time for the 3-day period will come, or maybe it will be in the interests of a person to switch (return?) to the 5-day period?
Outwardly developed technologically modern civilization, in fact, it is thoroughly saturated with ancient superstitions and prejudices. Our civilization still lives according to the Babylonian week, individual peoples and states modify the week depending on their religious preferences. The Jews declared Saturday a non-working day, in most other countries Sunday is a day off, Muslims have a day off - Friday (the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed). These details emphasize the difference between people, divide them. So far, ideology shapes the calendar to a greater extent than common sense. Different ideologies give rise to misunderstanding between people, misunderstanding gives rise to alertness and even aggression. All wars can be explained by lack of understanding.
Ruslan Susi, April 2005
* The topic of calendar origins is endless, so additions and bug reports are always helpful.
1 Voiced words for days of the week and time of day in English (with transcription)
Note that the names of the days of the week are always capitalized.
2 Prepositions of time used with the designations of the days of the week and the names of the parts of the day
1. Preposition on set with the days of the week: on Sunday / on Monday.
2. Preposition in put with the names of parts of the day, always with a definite article:
in the morning- in the morning;
in the afternoon- in the afternoon;
in the evening- in the evening.
(But: at night- at night.)
3. In combinations of the names of the days of the week with the words all, any, each, every, last, next, one, this the preposition is not used before them: last Monday- last Monday.
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3 Songs about the days of the week in English
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4 Song about the time of day in English
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5 Days of the week in English idioms
Blue Monday- (lit. "sad Monday") heavy Monday, i.e. the first working day after Sunday
Monday feeling- (lit. "Monday feeling") unwillingness to work after Sunday
Bloody Monday- (lit. "Bloody Monday") stud. the first day of vacation, the day of punishment of violators
Black Monday- (lit. "black Monday") 1) school .; unfold the first day after the holidays; 2) church. Black Monday
Handsel Monday- the first Monday of the year, on which it was customary to give small gifts, especially in Scotland (handsel - a gift for happiness; money received from the first sale, considered "lucky")
Fat Monday- (lit. "full Monday") the last Monday before Lent in the Catholic and Anglican churches
Pancake / Shrove Tuesday- Shrovetide Tuesday (the last day of Shrove Tuesday)
Black Wednesday- "black Wednesday", Wednesday September 16, 1992, when there was a sharp collapse in the British pound sterling
Good / Holy / Spy Wednesday- rel. Wednesday in Passion Week, Wednesday before Easter, the day Judas committed the betrayal
Black Thursday- exchanges. "Black Thursday", a precipitous fall in stock prices that began on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, and assumed catastrophic proportions on Black Monday (October 28) and Black Tuesday (October 29) that followed. This stock market crash, also known as the Wall Street crash, was the beginning of the Great Depression.
Maundy Thursday- rel. Maundy Thursday (Holy Week)
Friday girl- Assistant in the office, with a low official position and a variety of duties; a young girl acting as a personal assistant or secretary
Friday man– Friday, faithful servant (named after the servant in D. Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe")
Black Friday- "Black Friday", a Friday in which financial or other failures occur
Friday face- lean face, lean mine
Friday fare- fast food
Good Friday- rel. Good Friday
Saturday night special- trade; Amer. Saturday special, heavily discounted item, Saturday sale price; cheap (slang)
Hospital Saturday- (lit. "sick Saturday") the day of collecting donations for the maintenance of hospitals
Egg-Saturday- Saturday before Maslenitsa
a month of Sundays- (lit. "a month from Sundays") whole eternity, a very long time
when two sundays come together- lit. when two Sundays meet, i.e. never
sunday face- hypocritical appearance
Sunday's child- a child born on Sunday; lucky man
sunday driver– a car driver who works only on Sundays; inept, slow driver
sunday man- a person who is in society only on Sundays
sunday painter- an amateur artist; primitive artist
Sunday best / Sunday clothes– the best (new, festive) clothes for special occasions
Sunday closing– shop day off on Sundays
Sunday dinner- Sunday lunch
sunday school- Sunday School
Sunday supplement– Sunday supplement of the newspaper
6 Time of day in English idioms
morning after- razg. hangover, morning after drinking, revelry, etc.; unfold period of sobering up after a rash act
morning news- morning news bulletin
morning star- morning star, Venus
morning coat- business card
morning dress- a) a home suit; b) business card
morning parade- military morning check
in the afternoon of one's life- at the end of life, in the declining years
afternoon tea- a hearty dinner with tea
yester-evening- last night
evening gown- Amer. Evening Dress
evening star- evening Star
evening colors- Amer. sea flag lowering signal
evening gun- sea. signal shot before the evening changing of the guard
night out- a night away from home
to have a night off- have a free evening
small night- the first hours after midnight (1-2 a.m.)
in the dead of the night- late at night
throughout the night- all night long
night fell- the night has come
white night- 1) a night without sleep; 2) white night
overcast night- cloudy night
starlit night- Starlight Night
wedding night- the wedding night
stormy night- stormy night
night hawk = nightjar– night taxi driver; a person who works or just stays awake at night
night chair- chamber pot
night-bird– 1) nocturnal bird; 2) night reveler, night owl; night thief
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7 Games, songs and fairy tales in English about the days of the week (flash)
The origin of the names of the days of the week in English
In Latin, Romance and Germanic languages, the origin of the designations of the days of the week is associated with the names of the celestial bodies of the solar system: the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the Sun (in turn, named after the Roman gods). Monday was proclaimed the Day of the Moon, Tuesday the Day of Mars, and so on. In modern Italian, Spanish and French, the names of the first five planets have been preserved as the names of the days of the week. In English, only Monday ( Monday), Saturday ( Saturday) and Sunday ( Sunday) have names equivalent to Latin ones. The remaining days in English also bear the names of the planets, but have already received names in honor of the gods of Scandinavian mythology: Tuesday ( Tuesday) is named after Tiu (Tiw), Wednesday ( Wednesday) in honor of Woden, Thursday ( Thursday) - in honor of Thor (Thor), and Friday ( Friday) - in honor of Freya (Freya).
Abbreviated days of the week in English
Monday - Monday / Mon / Mo
Tuesday - Tuesday / Tue / Tu
Wednesday - Wednesday / Wed / We
Thursday - Thursday / Thu / Th
Friday - Friday/Fri/Fri
Saturday - Saturday / Sat / Sa
Sunday - Sunday/Sun/Su
Cards and coloring pages with the days of the week in English
English nursery rhymes about days of the week and time of day
Monday's child is nice and slow,
Tuesday's child is go, go, go,
Wednesday's child is very funny,
Thursday's child is happy and sunny,
Friday's child is like a king,
Saturday's child can dance and sing,
Sunday's child can stand on her head,
And count the ghosts under her bed!
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for his living,
And a child that's born of the
Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.
(Translated by M. Boroditskaya)
Who was born on Monday
It will be white as a miller.
Who on Tuesday is fair.
And who on Wednesday is unhappy.
Who on Thursday is an eternal vagabond.
Friday - kindhearted.
Who on Saturday - to the point,
Sunday is good for everyone!
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Wash on Monday
wash on Monday,
iron on tuesday,
Bake Wednesday,
brew on thursday,
Churn on Friday,
mend on saturday,
Go to meeting on Sunday.
Good night, sleep tight
good night sleep tight
wake up bright,
In the morning light
To do what's right,
With all your might.
Day in English and Russian
In English there is no special word for the concept expressed by the Russian word day; the corresponding concept can be expressed in English in a descriptive way, as day and night or twenty-four hours.
The same span of twenty-four hours is divided differently in English and Russian. English speakers divide this period into three parts: morning(from 0 to 12 noon), noon(from noon to about 18 hours, that is, until sunset) and evening(from sunset to midnight, after which it comes again morning). As for the words day and night, then they denote a different division of the day, not into three, but into two parts: light ( day) and dark ( night). In addition, the word day used in the same way as abbreviation day and night, that is, in the meaning of the Russian day.
In Russian, the picture is different - the day is divided into four parts, namely: morning (from sunrise to about 10 or 11 o'clock), afternoon (from 10 or 11 o'clock to sunset), evening (from sunset to about 10 or 11 hours) and night (between evening and morning, that is, the time when people sleep).
G. H. Andersen's tale about the days of the week in English
The days of the week once wanted to be free to get together and have a party.
The days of the week also wanted to get together and feast at least once.
But each of the seven days was so occupied, the year around, that they had no time to spare.
But each of them was on the account, they were so busy all year round that they could not do it.
They wanted a whole extra day; but then they had that every four years,
They had to wait an extra day, and this is only issued once every four years.
the intercalary day that comes in February for the purpose of keeping order in chronology.
- in February of a leap year; it is estimated to equalize the scores
In this article, we will learn what they are called days of the week in english. And we learn not only the name, but also the origin of the names of the days of the week in English.
The names of the days of the week in English come from the names of the Roman gods. In ancient times, the Romans used Saturday as the first day of the week. The ascension of the Sun to the rank of a deity and fanatical admiration for him moved Sunday from the second to the seventh day of the week.
let's consider origin of the days of the week in English.
Sunday - Sunday.
The name of this day of the week comes from the Latin expression dies solis - a sunny day (the name of a pagan Roman holiday). It was also called by the Latin name Dominica, the day of the god. The Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian), which evolved from Old Latin, retained this root (dom-) in the name of a given day of the week.
Monday - Monday.
The name of this day of the week in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon word monandaeg - "lunar day". The second day of the week was dedicated to the goddess of the moon.
Tuesday - Tuesday.
This day of the week in English was named after the Norse god Tyr. The Romans named this day after Mars, the god of war.
Wednesday - Wednesday.
The origin of the name of this day of the week refers to the Roman Empire, the original name is dies Mercurii in honor of the god Mercury (Mercury).
Thursday - Thursday.
The next day of the week is Thursday, and it is named after the Norse god Thor. In Norwegian, this day of the week is called Torsdag. The Romans called this day of the week - dies Jovis - the "Day of Jupiter", the most important god in their mythology.
Friday - Friday.
The penultimate day of the week in English is Friday. This day of the week was named after the Norwegian queen Frigg. The Romans dedicated this name to the goddess Venus.
Saturday - Saturday
The name of this day of the week glorified the god of ancient Roman mythology, Saturn.
Poster "Working week in English with emoticons" will help you quickly and easily remember the English names of the days of the week
Rhyming words are the easiest to remember. So quickly and effortlessly you can remember Sunday ["sʌndeɪ] - Monday ["mʌndeɪ](Sunday Monday), Tuesday ["tjuːzdɪ] - Thursday ["θɜːzdeɪ](Tuesday Thursday). Not to be confused Tuesday–Thursday, just remember that on Thursdays thunder rumbles and lightning flashes, because as we found out earlier, Thursday comes from the English word "thunder" - thunder, and this day belonged to the noisy god Thor.
Word "Friday" ["fraɪdeɪ] associated with the word "free" - free, and many perceive Friday as the beginning free time- free, personal pastime. Saturday ["sætədeɪ]- the day of Saturn! It remains for small: remember the word Wednesday ["wenzdeɪ]- Wednesday.
Days of the week: catchy rhymes for kids
Poems about the days of the week in English
Learn the abbreviations of the days of the week in English
Accepted abbreviations for english days of the week help you learn and visually remember the names of dates faster. In the culture of the language, two-letter abbreviations for calendars and three-letter abbreviations for short writing in the text are common:
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 (Monday 17 March 2014),
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 (Tuesday, 27 Dec 2016)
Learn the days of the week with songs and videos
Voiced poems or catchy songs will also help you quickly learn the days of the week.
On a note:
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Now you can find on YouTube a huge number of different variations, fast and slow tempo, British or American pronunciation. Choose the song that makes you happy and understandable to listen to. We offer you an example of such a training video for children:
Finally:
Finally, I would like to quote the American Richard Balls, the author of the world bestseller "What color is your parachute?". With these two sentences, you will not only easily learn the days of the week with prepositions, but also get one step closer to English-speaking culture:
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. (per. Youth is like a long weekend on a Friday night. Average age is like a long day off on a Monday afternoon.)
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