Wadensday
Scots
proper nouns
Definitions
- Wednesday
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Wednesday inherited from Old English wōdnesdæġ (Wednesday) inherited from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanas dagaz (day of Woden, later, Odin, day of Wodan) derived from Latin diēs Mercuriī (day of Mercury).
Origin
Latin
diēs Mercuriī
Gloss
day of Mercury
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wednesday English
- diēs Mercuriī Latin
- miércoles Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰegʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *Wōdanas dagaz Proto-Germanic
- *wēdnesdæġ Old English
- wodnesdæg Old English
- wōdnesdæġ Old English
- Aschewednysday Middle English
- Wednesday Middle English
- Wodnesdei Middle English
- óðinsdagr Old Norse
- dimecres Catalan, Valencian
- woensdach Middle Dutch
- wōtanstag Old High German
- *wuodenesdag Old Dutch
- wōdanesdag Old Saxon
- dimècres Occitan
- *wōdensdei Old Frisian