I was always curious about the Friday -> "gold" day -> payday link, but I guess this was a total coincidence. The actual derivation seems to be Friday <- Venus's day -> gold planet's day.
Other parts of the same site are devoted to the European, Chinese, and Vietnamese day name origins:
http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html
I was always curious about the Friday -> "gold" day -> payday link, but I guess this was a total coincidence. The actual derivation seems to be Friday <- Venus's day -> gold planet's day.
Other parts of the same site are devoted to the European, Chinese, and Vietnamese day name origins:
http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/index.html#TOP