laugardagr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editCompound of laug (“bath”) + dagr (“day”), literally "bath day". The former element is cognate with English lye.
Noun
editlaugardagr m
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: laugardagur
- Faroese: leygardagur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: laurdag, laugardag
- Old Swedish: lø̄ghardagher
- Old Danish: løghærdagh
- Gutnish: laudag
- → Finnish: lauantai
- Kven: lauvantai
- → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
- ⇒ Estonian: laupäev
See also
edit- days of the week: dagar í vikunni (appendix): mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr · sunnudagr [edit]
Further reading
edit- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “laugardagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive