Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Sāturnas dag
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *Sāturnas, *Saturnas (“Saturn's”) + *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Sāturnī (“Saturday”, literally “day of Saturn”). The Old English form appears to descend from a variant form *Saturnas dag (with short a), as one would otherwise expect sǣternesdæg.
In all (modern) High and most Low German dialects, other words for Saturday are found instead which commonly refer to Sunday or the Sabbath day, e.g. Old High German sambaztag (literally “Sabbath-day”) (modern German Samstag), and Old High German sunnūnāband (literally “Sunday eve”) (modern German Sonnabend) (see also Old English sunnanǣfen (“evening before Sunday”) and Old Norse sunnunótt (“night before Sunday”)).
Noun edit
*Sāturnas dag m
Inflection edit
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *Sāturnas dag | |
Genitive | *Sāturnas dagas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *Sāturnas dag | *Sāturnas dagō, *Sāturnas dagōs |
Accusative | *Sāturnas dag | *Sāturnas dagā |
Genitive | *Sāturnas dagas | *Sāturnas dagō |
Dative | *Sāturnas dagē | *Sāturnas dagum |
Instrumental | *Sāturnas dagu | *Sāturnas dagum |
Descendants edit
- Old English: sæternesdæġ, sæterndæġ, sæteresdæġ, sæterdæġ
- Old Frisian: sāterdei
- Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German: satersdach
- Old Dutch:
- Old High German:
- Middle High German: sātirsdach (Ripuarian)
- Central Franconian: Sodeschdaach, Sodeschdig (obsolete)
- Middle High German: sātirsdach (Ripuarian)
See also edit
Days of the week in Proto-West Germanic · *wikōn dagō (layout · text) | ||||||
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*Sunnōn dag | *Mānini dag | *Tīwas dag | *Wōdanas dag | *Þunras dag | *Frījā dag | *Sāturnas dag |