laugardagr

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

laugardagr m

1. Saturday

Descendants

• Icelandic: laugardagur
• Faroese: leygardagur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: laurdag, laugardag
• Old Swedish: lø̄ghardagher
  • Swedish: lördag
  • Swedish: (dialectal) lawda, löwda (East Swedish); lovdag, loydag, lögardag (Dalarna); löjdag, lögdag (Västerbotten)
• Old Danish: løghærdagh
  • Danish: lørdag
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lørdag
• Gutnish: laudag
• → Finnish: lauantai
  • Kven: lauvantai
  • → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
• ⇒ Estonian: laupäev

See also

• days of the week: dagar í vikunni (appendix): mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr · sunnudagr ^[edit]

Further reading

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