þursdæg

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Old English

Etymology

Possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thunor's day”), but more likely from Old Norse þōrsdagr or Old Danish þūrsdag (“Thursday”) (compare modern Danish torsdag); all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”), a calque of Latin dies Iovis, equivalent to Þunres (“genitive of the god's name Þunor”) +‎ dæġ (“day”). More at thunder, day.

Pronunciation

Noun

þursdæġ m

  1. Thursday

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative þursdæġ þursdagas
accusative þursdæġ þursdagas
genitive þursdæġes þursdaga
dative þursdæġe þursdagum

Descendants

See also

Days of the week in Old English · wicdagas (layout · text)
sunnandæġ mōnandæġ tīwesdæġ wōdnesdæġ þunresdæġ frīġedæġ sæternesdæġ
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