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I think PIE (Proto Indo-European) had ceased to be spoken long before the 7-day week reached Europe.
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This is way too Germanic sounding to be anything but. Any idea what the other day names are?
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Google led me to this huge 'names' site (Max, it looks like a good one for your references page!) but I couldn't find Finnish days of the week on it -- even though google tells me they're there. Any takers? http://jerryhill.tripod.com/
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Dear Bingley,
obviously, you are a word maven... the seven day work week is 24/7, 22/7 is a coarse pi.
Max, i loved it![/white}
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Here's the days from Monday to Friday per this site: http://www.hut.fi/~tkvopint/topiusage.htmlMaanantai Monday Tiistai Tuesday Keskiviikko Wednesday Torstai Thursday Perjantai Friday Wednesday looks like it might be a loan translation from the German Mittwoch. Well, part loan translation part loan word. Who knows where they got that Perjan for Friday!
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Keski-viikko is indeed Mid-week. The others look like borrowings near the proto-Germanic stage: cf German Montag, Sonntag. The Finnish words were borrowed from some Germanic stage at which the genitive endings were still present: *Monan-dag, *Sunnan-dag. But probably after the original ending (in *dagaz) had been lost.
Finnish has no F, nor initial clusters, so Perjan- could be from Freyja (or rather her counterpart in whatever Germanic language Old Finnish abutted).
The Finnish for king is kuningas if I recall correctly; this retains the *-az of Germanic (= Greek -os, Latin -us, still preserved in Icelandic -ur) so was presumably borrowed before the day names.
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Keski-viikko is indeed Mid-week.
Interesting, given that I found, whil(e,st) searching for the Finnish day names, the datum that German Mittwoch was a Christian reaction to Mercury-day being named after a pagan god. But why just Woden's day and not the others?
The only Western Gemanic language that I know that lost the -g at the end of day is English but one would expect Finnish to have gotten their loans from a Northern Germanic language. How is it in Scandanavian languages?
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mea culpa, mea culpa, mea Maxima culpa..
but i've already been called to task... reading in flat mode as do.. i mis-read it, and though my dear Mr. Bingley didn't understand..
so i am twice at fault!
i am going back to the sheep thread.. i wanted to do some knitting anyway..
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