This post will be the first of a week long series of the history behind the names of the days of the week. Today, we will start with Monday.
Monday in some other languages:
French - lundi
Spanish - lunes
German - Montag
Latin - dies Lunae
Italian - Lunedi
What do these all have in common? Well, for one, French, Spanish, and Italian are all Romance languages (evolved from Latin), so all three look similar to the Latin word. German and English are also very similar because English is a Germanic language.
The thing that they all have in common is that they all roughly mean the same thing: day of the Moon. Monday is named after the Moon. And we will see as we go on, that most days of the week are named after celestial bodies (or something related to a celestial body).
No comments:
Post a Comment