Thursday = Thor's day

Re:Thursday = Thor's day by hugh3 on Friday May 07, 2010 @04:13PM (#1328593)

What's really interesting is that Portugese is one of the few European languages which doesn't follow this pattern, since at some point someone decided it was heretical to name days after those silly Pagan gods.

So they have:

    * Domingo – Sunday
    * Segunda-feira – Monday
    * Terça-feira – Tuesday
    * Quarta-feira – Wednesday
    * Quinta-feira – Thursday
    * Sexta-feira – Friday
    * Sábado – Saturday

Domingo is the Day of the Lord, Sabado is based on sabbath and the others just get numbers. That's the trouble with monotheism, there's too damn many days and not enough gods.

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Re:Thursday = Thor's day by nske on Friday May 07, 2010 @07:49PM (#1329131)

In greek it is rather similar:

  * Monday -> Δευτέρα ("second")
  * Tuesday -> Τρίτη("third")
  * Wednesday -> Τετάρτη ("fourth")
  * Thursday -> Πέμπτη ("fifth")
  * Friday -> Παρασκευή ("preperation")
  * Saturday -> Σάββατο ("sabbath")
  * Sunday -> Κυριακή ("of the lord)

That version is being used since the time of the Roman Empire, before that, Greeks used the babylonian model that named days after planets -which in turn had been named after gods.

The english names are of germanic/norse descent, again mostly names of gods.

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Re:Thursday = Thor's day by hugh3 on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:25AM (#1329734)

So how many civilizations have _not_ had seven-day weeks?

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Re:Thursday = Thor's day by ido on Friday May 07, 2010 @04:38PM (#1328689)

    Sabado is based on sabbath

All of them except Domingo are also exactly the same in Hebrew ("first-day", "second-day", "third-day", etc).

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