From phma@oltronics.net Sun Oct 29 07:32:05 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 15:32:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 53819 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 15:32:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 15:32:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta2 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 15:32:03 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA04396 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:32:00 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.24, neofelis, , 207.15.133.24 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 10:32:01(EST) on October 29, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: weekday names Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:32:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <6.d42ce5f.272c4949@aol.com> <39FB1762.43D1D0BB@math.bas.bg> In-Reply-To: <39FB1762.43D1D0BB@math.bas.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00102909550600.00894@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >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