From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sun Oct 29 14:27:14 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 22:27:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 6229 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 22:27:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 22:27:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ch.egroups.com) (10.1.10.51) by mta3 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 22:27:14 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.126] by ch.egroups.com with NNFMP; 29 Oct 2000 22:27:14 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:27:05 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: weekday names Message-ID: <8ti87p+6mgc@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <00102913100001.00894@neofelis> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1202 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" --- In lojban@egroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I beg to differ. I don't know of any Christians who regard Sunday as the = =3D=0D last > day of the week in Genesis, however they number the days today.=20 Don't misunderstand me: Genesis speaks of 6 days of work an 1 (the last one= =3D=0D ) to rest (ne-del-ja)! This one I called "sunday" (in=20 quotes), but meant "the day the Lord donated to men" (as the Munich Rabbi t= =3D=0D ells us), i.e. the "seventh day".=20 =20 > Szerda and cs=FCt=F6rt=F6k are obviously from Slavic. "sreda" (szerda) the middle day, "chetyre" (cs=FCt=F6rt=F6k) the fourth day= : very=3D=0D convincing! Thanks. P=E9ntek looks Greek, but it > disagrees with the Greek numbering, so it's probably Slavic too (Slavic h= =3D=0D ad > nasal vowels, which are preserved in Polish, and the word for "five" had = =3D=0D one). Maybe something derived from "pjatj" (pantsch, pente etc.), hence the "fift= =3D=0D h". > Kedd may be from kett=F6, though I know little of Magyar so I'm just gues= si=3D=0D ng. Not bad! Hungarian orthography has changed a bit within the last thousand = =3D=0D years (look at the first document "... hogy csak por =E9s=20 hamu vagyunk..."). But maybe from "k=E9t" (which also means "two"). .aulun.