Thursday, the fourth day of the week or the fifth, depending on whether or not your week starts on Monday or on Sunday.
Let's look at Thursday in other languages:
French: jeudi
Italian: giovedi
Spanish: jueves
German: Donnerstag
Latin: dies Iovis
Looking at the Romance languages, they are all named after Jupiter, the supreme Roman god. He is also the god of thunder which leads to ... Thor in old Norse mythology. Yes, Thor was not the supreme Norse god, that was Oden, but because he was also the god of thunder, that's where we got Thursday. Donnerstag is also named after the Germanic Thor.
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