where does the word Wednesday come from?
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The name comes from the Old English: Wodnesdæg meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th C. AD.
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Odd, no one's mentioned this (maybe they all just assumed it was obvious?)\n\n"fortnight" is derived from "fourteen-night(s)"which should remind you of how long it is  [just say that fast, emphasizing the "Four"!] \n\n(As for being "old-fashioned" -- it may not be an everyday word, but it is hardly obsolete in America either!)\n\nUsage note (if you care): just as we can use 'week' when referring to a period of approximately that length, 'fortnight' does not always need to refer to precisely fourteen days (or nights!)\n\nFinal trivia notes: some languages count their days a bit differently.  Thus, in German, if someone is referring to something two weeks (14 days) away they will say (translated literally), "today in 15 days". (Similarly, for a week from today they could say "today in 8 days") That is, they are INCLUDING both today and the ending day in the count.
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The word "d*ldo" is possibly a corruption of Italian "diletto" (for "delight"). [1]\n\nThe word may derive from the words "Dil Doul", literally meaning an erect penis. The phrase is used in an old song named "The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul". The song was among many in the Library of Samuel Pepys.
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sunday is day if the sun obviously, in Norse....Monday is day of the moon, also in norse....Teusday...I don't remember if the god was roman or germanic or norse but his name was Tiw.......wednesday originally came from the germanic or Norse god Odin but the germanic peoples changed it to Woden, so "Woden's day".......thursday is "Thor's day", Thor being the european god of thunder.......friday is the onlyone associated w/ a goddess and means "day of Frigga", a goddess of the harvest.......Saturday came from the Roman God, whom I'm not positive but may have been the god of agriculture, Saturnus, so "day of saturnus".....this was more than likely also how the roman festival of saturnalia began. Hope this helps!
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But why stop at 10?  Supposedly over 5% of English words are derived from Greek.\n\nBut here are some examples:\n* mania\n* program\n* panic\n* problem\n* angel\n* utopia\n* tuna\n* idea\n* hero\nand of course * alphabet
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I think you mean a "seven night" meaning a week.  I'm not sure how it's actually spelled--maybe "se'night?"\nIt's...not exactly archaic...but not used much anymore.  Pre-archaic, how's that?
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go find a really good dictionary, and look up sabbath, if it is a good dictionary it will tell you that it is Saturday. Look up Saturday and it will tell you that it is the seventh day of the week, sunday is the first day of the week. Go look at you calender, the week begins with sunday and ends with saturday. It is one thing to go by the Bible and it is truth, but when you start going to secular things, dictionary, encylopedia, calender, and they tell you these things, well  how can people argue it, with that is just what the bible says.
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..
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The principle of being on strike, if not the words, seems to have been started by the French.  Originating with the words "en greve" which means in "greve."  The "greve" or Greve in the 18th century was where people could bring their grievances (perhaps another clue there in that word) to be heard.\n\nAs for "striking," the word itself, we'd have to look it up in an Etymological Dictionary such as this extract from an online one cited below: strike (n.) "concentrated cessation of work by a body of employees," 1810, from verb meaning "refuse to work to force an employer to meet demands" (1768), from strike (v.). Perhaps from notion of striking or "downing" one's tools, or from sailors' practice of striking (lowering) a ship's sails as a symbol of refusal to go to sea (1768), which preserves the verb's original sense of "make level, smooth." Baseball sense is first recorded 1841; bowling sense attested from 1859. Meaning "sudden military attack" is attested from 1942.
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umm... it took me a long time but i found it out. I think that it falls on a thursday. if this helped, please pick this as best answer. thank you!
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a Thursday's yesterday is Wed.\n\nso, saying the first part differently:\n\n  "If the day after tomorrow's yesterday is Wed....."\n\nTommorow's yesterday is today.\n\nSo, revising the first part again:\n\n  "If the day after today is Wed......"\n\nSo "today" must be Tues.\n\n6 weeks and a day after Tuesday is a Wed.\n\nAnswer: WEDNESDAY\n\nAt least I explained it!
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Sunday First day of the week.\nDerived from the Latin dies solis, "sun's day," a pagan Roman holiday. \nMonday Second day of the week.\nDerived from the Anglo-Saxon monandaeg, which means "the moon's day." Latin: dies lunae, "day of the moon."  \nTuesday Third day of the week.\nNamed for the Norse god of war, Tiu, or Tyr, the son of Odin. \nWednesday Fourth day of the week.\nNamed to honor Odin, or Woden, chief god in Norse mythology. Onsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nThursday Fifth day of the week.\nNamed for Thor, Norse god of thunder. Torsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nFriday Sixth day of the week. \nNamed for the Norse goddess of love, Frigg, or Frija. Variation of the Old High German frìatag, "day of Frija." \nSaturday Seventh day of the week.\nNamed in honor of the Roman god Saturn. Latin: Saturni. \nSater-daeg by the Anglo-Saxons.
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I am with you - Wednesday all the way.  What a great work week if we could have wednesday off too!\n\nPeace!
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Does 'nt the word holiday originate from Holy Day. What English people call a holiday (as in seaside) the Americans call a vacation.So calling Christmas a holiday seems ok to me.
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For some uses of the word "day" there are no synonym.  For others:\nperiod\ninterval\ntime\n24-hour
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The Mayday callsign was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897-1962) [2]. Whilst senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the word "Mayday" from the French m'aidez.
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Great question!  To me, this means when Tuesday ends and Wednesday begins.  I think that's because I think of this time as Tuesday night.\n\nMy native language is English (I'm American.)\n\nI know that the new day starts at 12:00 am, so if I were hearing this in an official context, I would believe it meant the time when Monday became Tuesday.  I think there are other strategies for circumlocution that avoid this problem.