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- From: sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: The Days Of The Week In Latin
- Followup-To: sci.lang
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:20:52 GMT
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- In article <8519@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- >In article <1i9q5iINNk14@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber) writes:
- > > In article <1993Jan4.152515.16062@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> gvanmoor@nrao.edu writes:
- > > >Whether 'Saterdag' is originally Frisian I do not know. I do know that
- > > >'Zaterdag' is THE Dutch word for Saturday.
- > > >
- > > do you know the derivation of Zaterdag?
- > >
- >The same as Saturday.
-
- yes, from Saturn. but I have a friend interested in the names
- of the days of the week and he wonders how it is that they
- emerged from the Anglo-Saxon-Jute invasions of Romano-Celtic
- Britain with 6 Teutonic gods and 1 Roman god. apparently
- Saturn would be 1 of about 2 Latin words to have survived
- the invasions. (we got a lot of Latin later on to make up for
- it though.)
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- Eric
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