From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 09 16:49:53 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EDscq-0001p1-5T for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:49:44 -0700 Received: from phma.hn.org ([216.189.113.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EDscX-0001oq-Gh for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:49:44 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 758BA6C7; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 23:49:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan. Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:49:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <925d175605090914066527a451@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d175605090914066527a451@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509091949.29055.phma@phma.hn.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10564 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Friday 09 September 2005 17:06, Jorge Llambías wrote: > But for days of the week things are more confusing. Not > everybody agrees which day is day 1. I believe Russian > and Portuguese for example both use numbers for the > names of the days, but they don't agree on where to start > the count. Portuguese, Greek, and Hebrew agree that Monday is the second day, so this can be taken to be the Yahwist opinion (especially because of the Greek and Hebrew). Russian considers Tuesday to be second, but Wednesday middle. The word for Saturday in all these is or is derived from Shabbat. The Russian words have arbitrary suffixes. pt: domingo, segunda-feira, terça-feira, quarta-feira, quinta-feira, sexta-feira, sábado el: kuriaké, deutera, trité, tetarté, pempté, paraskeué, sabbato he: yom rishon, yom sheni, yom shlishi, yom rvi`i, yom chamishi, yom shishi, shabbat ru: voskresenye, ponedel'nik, vtornik, sreda, chetverg, pyatnitsa, subbota Galician, however, which is sometimes considered a dialect of Portuguese or vice versa, uses the Roman gods as do other Romance languages: domingo, luns, martes, mércores, xoves, venres, sábado. phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.