Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex...
by torstenvl on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:25PM
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Only in Russian.
In other Slavic languages it's mostly some form of ty + djen' (Polish tydzien Croatian tjedan Czech týden Belarusian тыдзень Ukrainian тиждень). But see Bulgarian (седмица seven-thing (fem.)).
I suspect (without evidence) that, in Russian, it's referring to Sundays as a way of reckoning weeks.
week:Sunday :: year:summer :: month::moon. Cf. "When I was but 10 summers old", "Many moons ago", etc.
That would fit with the use of the archaic word for Sunday as well.
In other Slavic languages it's mostly some form of ty + djen' (Polish tydzien Croatian tjedan Czech týden Belarusian тыдзень Ukrainian тиждень). But see Bulgarian (седмица seven-thing (fem.)).
I suspect (without evidence) that, in Russian, it's referring to Sundays as a way of reckoning weeks.
week:Sunday :: year:summer :: month::moon. Cf. "When I was but 10 summers old", "Many moons ago", etc.
That would fit with the use of the archaic word for Sunday as well.