Names of the Seven Days of the Week in the Languages of Europe, Part II
This paper examines the names of the days of the week in 37 languages or dialects of Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe. The Roman planetary names are still found in Romanian, Albanian and, in the form of Germanic loan- translations, also in Finnish and Saami. Planetary names were once also used...
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ftunivwontaojs:oai:ojs.uwo.ca:article/17015 2023-12-03T10:29:38+01:00 Names of the Seven Days of the Week in the Languages of Europe, Part II Falk, Michael 2004-06-01 application/pdf https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/17015 eng eng Western Libraries at Western University https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/17015/13027 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/17015 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Onomastica Canadiana; Vol. 86 No. 1 (2004); 17-40 2816-7015 0078-4656 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article Article évalué par les pairs 2004 ftunivwontaojs 2023-11-05T00:11:32Z This paper examines the names of the days of the week in 37 languages or dialects of Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe. The Roman planetary names are still found in Romanian, Albanian and, in the form of Germanic loan- translations, also in Finnish and Saami. Planetary names were once also used in Greek, but in Modem Greek no trace of them remains. In most languages examined the day names are numerical, following a naming tradition favoured by the Christian Church. In many languages such names were introduced by Christian missionaries, but in Hungarian, Lithuanian and some Slavic languages they were probably adopted before the acceptance of Christianity. The names of the days indicate that the use of the seven-day week in many instances spread spontaneously, because of its inherent advantages. L’article examine les noms des jours de la semaine dans 37 langues ou dialectes de l’Europe de l’est, du nord et du sud. Les noms planétaires, d’origine romaine, existent encore en roumain et albanais, ainsi qu’en forme de calques germaniques en finnois et saami. Le grec aussi employait des noms planétaires mais toutes traces en ont disparu dans le grec moderne. Dans la plupart des langues examinées les noms de jour sont numériques, adoptés selon une tradition chrétienne. Dans beaucoup de langues, ces noms ont été introduits par des missionnaires chrétiens, mais en hongrois, lithuanien, et dans certaines langues slaves, ils remontent probablement avant l’implantation de la chrétienté. Les noms de jour montrent que, le plus souvent, la semaine de sept jours s’est généralisée spontanément, à cause de ses avantages inhérents. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami Western Libraries OJS |
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This paper examines the names of the days of the week in 37 languages or dialects of Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe. The Roman planetary names are still found in Romanian, Albanian and, in the form of Germanic loan- translations, also in Finnish and Saami. Planetary names were once also used in Greek, but in Modem Greek no trace of them remains. In most languages examined the day names are numerical, following a naming tradition favoured by the Christian Church. In many languages such names were introduced by Christian missionaries, but in Hungarian, Lithuanian and some Slavic languages they were probably adopted before the acceptance of Christianity. The names of the days indicate that the use of the seven-day week in many instances spread spontaneously, because of its inherent advantages. L’article examine les noms des jours de la semaine dans 37 langues ou dialectes de l’Europe de l’est, du nord et du sud. Les noms planétaires, d’origine romaine, existent encore en roumain et albanais, ainsi qu’en forme de calques germaniques en finnois et saami. Le grec aussi employait des noms planétaires mais toutes traces en ont disparu dans le grec moderne. Dans la plupart des langues examinées les noms de jour sont numériques, adoptés selon une tradition chrétienne. Dans beaucoup de langues, ces noms ont été introduits par des missionnaires chrétiens, mais en hongrois, lithuanien, et dans certaines langues slaves, ils remontent probablement avant l’implantation de la chrétienté. Les noms de jour montrent que, le plus souvent, la semaine de sept jours s’est généralisée spontanément, à cause de ses avantages inhérents. |
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Names of the Seven Days of the Week in the Languages of Europe, Part II |
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Names of the Seven Days of the Week in the Languages of Europe, Part II |
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Onomastica Canadiana; Vol. 86 No. 1 (2004); 17-40 2816-7015 0078-4656 |
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