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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
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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I mean, I listed there the etymology for English days of the week: Sun, Moon, Tyr, Woden, Thor, Freya, Saturn. Tuesday through Friday are old Germanic gods. Saturday comes from Rome, although according to Wikipedia, not from the god... Well, part of those obviously matches for German: Montag, Sonntag, Freitag... You could arguably also say Donnerstag (Thor being the god of thunder).