Old Norse

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Etymology

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Compound of laug (bath) +‎ dagr (day), literally "bath day". The former element is cognate with English lye.

Noun

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laugardagr m

  1. Saturday

Descendants

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “laugardagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive