Friday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of frīġe and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.

Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: frīʹdā, frīʹdē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/, /-di/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/, /-ˌdi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdeɪ, -aɪdi
• Hyphenation: Fri‧day

Noun

Friday (plural Fridays)

1. The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim “Sabbath”; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
2. (colloquial, with possessive) The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

   Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

Synonyms

• Fri, Fri. (abbreviations)

Symbols

• F, Fr
• ♀ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: Fraide
• → Maori: Paraire

Translations

References

• friday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Week-day names on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adverb

Friday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) On Friday.

Translations

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week)}

Anagrams

• fraidy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ffryday, Freday, fridai, Fryda, fryday, Vriday, vridei
• fridæi, Fridæig, friȝdæi (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English frīġedæġ. Forms with -e- are possibly after Old Norse freadagr, frjádagr, but may also represent the regular phonological development of frīġedæġ in some dialects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriːdɛi̯/, /ˈfreːdæi̯/

Proper noun

Friday

1. Friday

Descendants

• English: Friday
  • Tok Pisin: Fraide
  • → Maori: Paraire
• Scots: Friday
• Yola: Vreedie, Vridei, vreedei

References

• “frī-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

See also

• (days of the week) weke-dayes; Sunnenday, Monday, Tewesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saterday ^{(Category: enm:Days of the week)}