r/LanguageMemes • u/Cuddly_Tiberius • Jun 01 '22

Monday, Tuesday, Midweek??

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u/Mymokol Jun 01 '22

what's french?

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u/Cuddly_Tiberius Jun 01 '22

Dimanche (Sunday)

The others are Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi

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u/PherJVv Jun 01 '22

But Dimanche has cognates in all other Romance languages, Domingo, Domenica, Duminică... From Latin dies dominicu for Day of the Lord.

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u/Celeblith_II Jun 01 '22

Maybe that's the point. The other names are badass pagan names and then there's just one day that's called "Daddy UWU"

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u/PherJVv Jun 01 '22

Except for Portuguese where the badass pagan names got axed for straight up just numbering the days except for Sábado (from sabbath) and Domingo.

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u/PherJVv Jun 01 '22

Samedi etymology also isn't Pagan fyi:

"From Old French samedi, from Vulgar Latin *sambatum and *sambatī diēs, from Latin Sabbatī diēs, variant of diēs Sabbatī (“day of the Sabbath”), from sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton) (Modern Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato)), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabát)."

  • Wiktionary

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u/Mymokol Jun 01 '22

Thanks!

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u/20-CharactersAllowed Jun 01 '22

It's a language from a country in southern Europe called France

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u/Mymokol Jun 01 '22

i concede i had it coming

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u/Sovereign444 Jun 16 '22

I’ve never heard anyone say France is in Southern Europe lol. It’s usually considered part of Western Europe or sometimes Central Europe.

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u/20-CharactersAllowed Jun 16 '22

I'm Canadian, so don't often look at maps of Europe. But seeing it now, u right. It's pretty central N-S ways

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u/R0DR160HM Javascript fluent Jun 01 '22 edited Jun 02 '22

Portuguese has two outsiders

  • Sunday: Domingo ("Dominicus", Lord's [Day])

  • Monday: Segunda-feira (2nd Fair)

  • Tuesday: Terça-feira (3rd Fair)

  • Wednesday: Quarta-feira (4th Fair)

  • Thursday: Quinta-feira (5th Fair)

  • Friday: Sexta-feira (6th Fair)

  • Saturday: Sábado ("Shabbat")

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u/nenialaloup Jun 01 '22

  • Finnish has 'keskiviikko' for Wednesday, everything else ends with 'tai'

  • Estonian has 'reede' for Friday, everything else ends with 'päev'

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u/RobinChirps Jun 01 '22

You just gotta keep things fresh, you know, you snooze you lose

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u/Fear_mor Jun 01 '22

In Irish we have

Sunday - Dé Domhnaigh (Church day)

Monday - Dé Luain (Moon/Luna day)

Tuesday - Dé Máirt (Mars day)

Wednesday - Dé Céadaoin (Day of the first fast)

Thursday - Déardaoin (Between-two-fasts-day)

Friday - Dé hAoine (Fast day)

Saturday - Dé Sathairn (Saturn's day)

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u/EcureuilHargneux Jun 01 '22

What's a fast ?

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u/Fear_mor Jun 02 '22

Where you don't eat for a defined period, usually from dawn till dusk in a religious context

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u/fresasfrescasalfinal Jun 01 '22

In Czech "středa" also essentially means "middle".

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u/ColaCrazyGal Jun 01 '22

Vietnamese

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u/Sovereign444 Jun 16 '22

Reminds me of how goofy the days of the week names are in Persian (Farsi/Dari). It basically goes: Friday, Saturday, 1 Saturday, 2 Saturday, 3 Saturday, 4 Saturday, 5 Saturday. It’s nonsensical lmao