[gothic-l] Re: Saturday

[Håkan Liljeberg]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Francisc Czobor <czobor at c...> wrote:

Hails allaim!
Since we have Laugardagr in ON, Laugardagur and Lördag in some
other 
contemporary scandinavian languages..! It basically means "wash-day", 
the day in the week when everybody rested in the evening, and 
prepared for sunday. Since there are already a word attested, I can 
only came with a abstract suggestion. We could as an exemple say 
*thwaha-dags "wash-day". If we want to be more "hollow", maybe we 
could say "hailags-dags" or "weihs-dags" holy, sacred day.
This was all I could come up with.



Gutwulfs
Håkan Liljeberg



> 
> But we have "sabbato" or "sabbato-dags" attested in the Silver 
Bible,
> isn't it?
> Regarding other expressions for the days of the week, from the 
Gothic
> loanwords in Old Bavarian they could be reconstructed also:
> *Areis-dags or *Ariaus-dags for Tuesday (<Greek Areos hemera)
> *Pintadags for Thursday (<Greek pempte: hemera)
> *Paraskaiwen-dags for Friday (<Greek paraske:ue:)
> 
> Francisc
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Brian Beck wrote:
> 
> > Hails allaim,
> >   I noticed browsing through neologisms in the gothic-l database 
that 
> > we have Gothic expressions for all the days of the week, except 
> > Saturday.
> > Sauilis dags, Menins dags, Teiwis dags, Wodanis dags, Thunaris 
dags, 
> > Fraujons dags (?or Friddjos dags), but no Saturday.
> > In modern Germanic languages there seem to be several expressions 
for 
> > this day of the week: Saturday, Zaterdag, Samstag (Sonnabend), 
> > Laugardagr.  Can we come up with a Gothic expression: *Saturnaus 
> > dags, *Laugos(?) dags?  I don't know what the equivalent Germanic 
> > deity was for Saturn. Nerthus or Ingwaz? Perhaps we could propose 
> > *Nairthaus dags or Iggwis dags. Any ideas?
> > Goleins,
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
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