Origin of the third day of the week the different European languages (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 5 months ago by Servais@dormi.zone to c/yurop@lemm.ee

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[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 25 points 5 months ago

Of course we can't even agree if it's the third or the fourth day

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago

Most of my life I wondered why it's called "middle of the week" when actually Thursday's the day with an equal number of days in a week coming before and after. I often thought maybe weekend's subtracted. Only in my late 20s I learned that there are places where the first day of the week is Sunday lol

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

The funny part is the green countries in this map don't start the week on a sunday. I guess they used to and the name stayed

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Neither does the week start on Sundays in the blue countries

[-] Freeman@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm swiss and I always assumed its because of the workweek being Monday to Friday. But only a few decades ago Saturday was pretty mich a workday as well, so that probably isnt it

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

More directly, we can't agree if Sunday or Monday is the first day. IMO Sunday is the first day. Calendars look better with the weekends acting like bookends.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Index 0 vs Index 1.

[-] BlessedDog@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Estonia is incorrect as well, in Estonian Wednesday would be "kolmapäev", which translates to "third day"

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks!

[-] zLurn@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

In Basque language the third day of the week is called asteazkena, "the last day" (aste=week azken=last) because the ancient Basque weeks only had three days. So astelehena= first day of the week = Monday. Asteartea=middle day = Thursday.

[-] Wintex@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

In Kosovo the majority is Albanian so they would say Merkure.

[-] Flyswat@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

For Northern Africa it's Fourth day too (in Arabic)

[-] Stety@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

In Belgium we also speak Flemish, which is a dialect of Dutch, and German. So Belgium should be orange, red and blue.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a map of countries, not languages... There are a lot more situations in Europe where the boundaries of languages don't align with political borders.

Some other problems:

Kosovo is colored the same way as Serbia, but there are by far more Albanians live there, so it should be the colored that way.
What the hell is the color of Switzerland. Is it colored according to the Rhomansh, a language spoken by 40 thousand people, 0.5% of the population?

this is a very shitty map.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I didnt know the hungarian one had any meaning, its probably from old hungarian or another language.

Interesting facts about the days of the week in hungary: monday means the head of the week and sunday is market day(i think you can figure out why). The rest dont really make sense in modern hungarian.