Subject: weekday names

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:32:58 -0400

>Unfortunately, that's not quite the case. Languages disagree on
>the day on which the numbering should start; Tuesday is Day 2 in
>the Slavic reckoning, but Day 3 in Greek and Day 4 in Swahili.

4 in Swahili? News to me. What is the word?

As to the Slavic reckoning, they are in Russian:
voskresenye (resurrection)
ponedelnik (po-week-nik)
vtornik (second-nik)
sreda (middle)
chetverg (fourg)
pyatnitsa (five-nitsa)
subbota (Sabbath).
So although Tuesday is the second day, and Monday is the first (po as a verbal
prefix may indicate the beginning of an action), Wednesday is the middle, so
Sunday must be the zeroeth.

The fundamental numbering for days of the week in jegvo religions is that of
Hebrew, which is the same as Greek:
ri'shon	first	kuriaké	Lord's
sheni	second	deutera
shlishi	third	trité
rvi`i	fourth	tetarté
chamishi fifth	pempté
shishi	sixth	paraskeué preparation
shabbat Sabbath sabbato
All others should be regarded as apomorphies.

But not everyone who uses a seven-day week is jegvo. Hindus also have a
seven-day week; here are the names in Gujarati (again beginning Sunday, though
I don't know how or even whether they number the days):
ravivara
somavara
mangalavara
budhavara
guruvara
sukravara
sanivara
I am making no attempt to transliterate length, retroflex, etc.

phma