From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Sun Oct 29 08:03:42 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 16:03:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 10091 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 16:03:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 16:03:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 16:03:40 -0000 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA11993 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: <39FC58BB.53AF@math.bas.bg> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:04:59 +0200 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] weekday names References: <6.d42ce5f.272c4949@aol.com> <39FB1762.43D1D0BB@math.bas.bg> <00102909550600.00894@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Pierre Abbat wrote: > >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? _Jumanne_, ie Day Four (_nne_) after Friday (_Juma_). > As to the Slavic reckoning, they are in Russian: [...] > So although Tuesday is the second day, and Monday is the first > (po as a verbal prefix may indicate the beginning of an action), No, _po_ means `after' here. Monday is the day after Sunday, which is the original meaning of the word _nedelja_ (currently `week' in Russian, but still `Sunday' in Bulgarian), from _ne-_ `not' + del-_ `work', ie `day off'. > Wednesday is the middle, so Sunday must be the zeroeth. Sunday was first, and Wednesday fourth and therefore central, in an older system of which the name _sreda_ for Wednesday is a fossil. As the names of Tuesday, Thursday and Friday attest, however, that system has been superseded by one in which Monday is first and Sunday seventh. --Ivan