Nordic Days of the Week. #nordic #norway #iceland #language

[chalphon]

Same in Swedish, Saturday is "Lördag" which is short for Lögardagen which means the day you wash yourself.

[joostdriesens]

In the Netherlands we have:
- Sun day
- Moon day
- Tyr day
- Wodin day
- Thor day
- Freya day
- Saturnus day!

We didn't need washing day because in the old times all Dutch people were covered by the sea twice a day and were very clean.

[olafurw]

In this comment section we respect the gods. Also remember tomorrow is bath day.

[edwardlane]

Welsh does :
Dydd Llun - Moon day
Dydd Mawrth - Mars day
Dydd Mercher - Mercury day
Dydd Iau - Jupiter Day
Dydd Gwener - Venus Day
Dydd Sadwrn - Saturn Day
Dydd Sul - Sun Day

[loloverlord]

In Français (French), it's:
Lundi (Lune is French for the Moon)
Mardi (Mars)
Mercredi (Mercury)
Jeudi (Jupiter)
Vendredi (Venus)
Samedi (Saturn)
Dimanche (from medieval French "dienenche", deformation of the Latin "Dies dominicus", translating as "Day of the Lord", because it's church day).

[uvbe]

meanwhile chinese:
weekday 1
weekday 2
weekday 3
weekday 4
weekday 5
weekday 6
weekday... sky?

[katherineheasley]

Japanese:

Nichiyoubi (sun day)
Getsuyoubi (moon day)
Kayoubi (fire day)
Suiyoubi (water day)
Mokuyoubi (wood day)
Kinyoubi (metal day)
Doyoubi (earth day)

[edim]

In Polish the week historically starts with Niedziela (from proto-slavic "nedelati" meaning "not working" so a "free day") then it's Poniedziałek (lit. The Day after Free Day"), Wtorek (from "wtóry" meaning second so the second day after free day), Środa (from środek meaning middle), Czwartek (from czwarty meaning fourth), Piątek (from piąty meaning fifth) and Sobota (from hebrew שבת/Shabbat).

[just_a_vr_guy]

"Are you just counting the days?"
Me a Lithuanian : *Sweats profusely*

[alphabetstreams]

I am so glad I found your shorts. Easily one of my favorite new channels!

[kartupelis]

Latvian has the counting as well mostly.
Monday is Pirmdiena (First day)
Tuesday is Otrdiena (Second day)
Wednesday is Trešdiena (Third day)
Thursday is Ceturtdiena (Fourth day)
Friday is Piektdiena (Fifth day)
Saturday is Sestdiena (Sixth day)

But then Sunday is Svētdiena... (Holy day).

[wishiwasapinapple]

We are stinky in norway too and have to clean up on lørdag

[impishDullahan]

Meanwhile in Irish you have day-where-you're-not-allowed-to-eat, too, in Dé hAoine for Friday, but there's also Dé Céadaoin, or day of first-fast, for Wednesday, and don't forget that Thursday, Déardaoin, is day-between-fasts.

[iRexia]

in Arabic we have

Ahad {first day}
ithnayn {second day}
Thulatha {third day}
Arbi'a {fourth day}
Khamees {fifth day}
Juma'h {gathering day}
Sabt {Rest Day} Same as Sabbath for jews

BTW we start the week at Ahad or Sunday

[Azeria]

I love English’s days because like mostly it’s the same as our Germanic counterparts, it’s nice to see the old gods still referenced somewhere and then we get to Saturday which just feels like a compromise like we had to give the romans something

Sunday Sun
Monday Moon
Tuesday Tiw
Wednesday Woden
Thursday Thor
Friday Frigg
Saturday Saturn

[DadRt_eM]

Here in Greece it's
Monday = second day (Δευτέρα)
Tuesday= third day (τρίτη)
Wednesday= fourth day (Τετάρτη)
Thursday= fifth day (Πέμπτη)
Friday= preparation of tools day? (Παρασκευή)
Staturday= from the Hebrew word shabbat (Σάββατο)
And Sunday= the day of the lord (Κυριακή)
The reason it starts off with the second day is because we thought back then that Sunday was the first day.

[static_irony]

Is anyone else finding the pronunciationof the days at the start oddly pleasing to listen to? Feel like I could listen to that all day

[szakacsattila]

We Hungarians just gathered meanings from everywhere. 😅

Hétfő(Monday) - „hétnek a feje” the "head of the week", the beginning of the week.

Kedd(Tuesday) - from the Old Hungarian word ketüdi, which means second ("second")

Szerda(Wednesday) - sreda (среда = средний = middle)

Csütörtök(Thursday) - chetverg (четверг = четвертый = fourth day)

Péntek(Friday) - of Slavic origin, its relatives are Old Slavic пѧтъкъ [pɛ̃tŭkŭ], Croatian petak

Szombat(Saturday) - adoption of the Hebrew word sabbath (day of rest)

Vasárnap(Sunday) - originally "vásár napja(fair day)", the weekly fair was held on this day..

[Pippis]

The estonians have named monday to thursday just first day, second day, 3rd, 4th, friday is reede (don't know what that means), saturday - laupäev - is borrowed from the Scandinavians, and sunday - pühapäev - is like "holy day"/"sanctuous day" or something like that.
We have the same word in Finnish and it means "holy day" for any religious free days AND sundays. So for sunday we have "sunnuntai", but sunnuntai is also a pyhäpäivä (a holy day).

Edit: Duh, ofcourse reede comes from fredag too!

[RunD.Oness]

I knew almost nothing about Iceland when I started following this channel, now I reflexively brace myself every time he brings them up, I’ll never forgive them for “Leather Flapping Man”