laugardagr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom laug (“pool”) + dagr (“day”), literally "bathing day". The former element is cognate to 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; sunnudagr, mánadagr/mánudagr, týsdagr, óðinsdagr, þórsdagr, frjádagr, laugardagr (Category: non:Days of the week)
References
edit- “laugardagr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press