Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Sāturnas dag
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *Sāturnas, *Saturnas (“Saturn's”) + *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Sāturnī (“Saturday”, literally “day of Saturn”). The Old English form appears to descend from a variant form *Saturnas dag (with short a), as one would otherwise expect sǣternesdæg.
In all (modern) High and most Low German dialects, other words for Saturday are found instead which commonly refer to Sunday or the Sabbath day, e.g. Old High German sambaztag (literally “Sabbath-day”) (modern German Samstag), and Old High German sunnūnāband (literally “Sunday eve”) (modern German Sonnabend) (see also Old English sunnanǣfen (“evening before Sunday”) and Old Norse sunnunótt (“night before Sunday”)).
Noun
*Sāturnas dag m
- Saturday
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *Sāturnas dag | |
Genitive | *Sāturnas dagas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *Sāturnas dag | *Sāturnas dagō, *Sāturnas dagōs |
Accusative | *Sāturnas dag | *Sāturnas dagā |
Genitive | *Sāturnas dagas | *Sāturnas dagō |
Dative | *Sāturnas dagē | *Sāturnas dagum |
Instrumental | *Sāturnas dagu | *Sāturnas dagum |
Descendants
- Old English: sæternesdæġ, sæterndæg, sæteresdæg, sæterdæg
- Middle English: Saterday, Seterday, Ceterday, Satirday, Saturday, Saturnesday, zeterday
- English: Saturday
- Tok Pisin: Sarere
- Scots: Seturday
- Yola: zathardei, zatherdei
- English: Saturday
- Middle English: Saterday, Seterday, Ceterday, Satirday, Saturday, Saturnesday, zeterday
- Old Frisian: sāterdei
- West Frisian: saterdei, saterje
- Saterland Frisian: Saterdag
- Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German: satersdach
- Dutch Low Saxon: zaoterdag
- German Low German: Saterdag
- Middle Low German: satersdach
- Old Dutch:
- Middle Dutch: saterdach
- Dutch: zaterdag
- Afrikaans: Saterdag
- Negerhollands: saeterdag, saterdag
- → Arawak: satdakha, satradakha
- → Mohegan-Pequot: zotortar
- → Sranan Tongo: satra
- → Galibi Carib: satra
- Limburgish: zaoterdig
- West Flemish: zoaterdag
- Dutch: zaterdag
- Middle Dutch: saterdach
- Old High German:
- Middle High German: sātirsdach (Ripuarian)
- Central Franconian: Sodeschdaach, Sodeschdig (obsolete)
- Middle High German: sātirsdach (Ripuarian)
See also
Days of the week in Proto-West Germanic · *wikōn dagō (layout · text) | ||||||
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*Sunnōn dag | *Mānini dag | *Tīwas dag | *Wōdanas dag | *Þunras dag | *Frījā dag | *Sāturnas dag |