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Old Apr 06, 2018, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by ArcheM View Post
I mean, I'll give you that, but eventually you have to take care of the first part of those words, and deal with the particular ordering of Sun, Moon, Tyr (which I was able to determine only thanks to Wikipedia), Woden, Thor, Freya... and Saturn (suddenly a Roman god, among all the Germanic ones).

Compared to that (and all the different languages' variations on the theme) I find Mittwoch a breath of fresh air... I mean, you've noticed that the translation is "middle of the week", right?

Which made me realize the sharp contrast to Slavic languages, where normally it's some variation of "second day", "middle day", "fourth day", "fifth day"... Although the rest are a bit more complicated. Except that for Monday, at least in Russian and Polish, it's (at the root) "the day after Sunday".
Thanks for the explanation, I don't even know why the days are named the way they are in English, except for Thursday being like "Thors day" or something like that.

I did notice that Mittwoch could translate to "mid week" so I guess that makes sense, Wednesday is the middle of the week, but in English we named it Wedsesnday for some reason. I really should look up the reason the days of the week are named what they are in English.
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