--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 2/20/07 4:59:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > sparaig@ writes: > > > > hence the reason why all Romance languages (as far as > > I know) call Saturday "Sabbath Day." > > > > > > > > I always thought it was Saturday after Saturn and Sunday after the Sun and > > Monday after the moon. > > > English is a Germanic language. And the English names seem to follow (at least partly) the > convention used by China and Japan, rather than Rome: > > Sun Day, Moon Day, Fire Day, Water Day, Wood Day, Gold Day, > Earth Day.
English follows German pretty closely; the days are all named for the sun/moon and the planetary gods in English, but German has mundane names for Wednesday and Saturday: Sontag/Sunday (sun's day), Montag/Monday (moon's day), Dienstag/Tuesday (Ziu/Mars' day), Mittwoch/Wednesday (midweek/Mercury/Wodan's day), Donnerstag/Thursday (Donner/Jupiter/Thor's day), Freitag/Friday (Freia/Venus' day), Sonnabend/Saturday (Sunday eve/Saturn's day)
