Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Sāturnas dag
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *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
editMasculine 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
editDays 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 |
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- Proto-West Germanic compound terms
- Proto-West Germanic terms calqued from Latin
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Latin
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic nouns
- Proto-West Germanic multiword terms
- Proto-West Germanic masculine nouns
- Proto-West Germanic masculine a-stem nouns
- gmw-pro:Days of the week