Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Frījā dag
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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *Frījā (“Frigg's”) + *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Veneris (“Friday”, literally “day of Venus”).
Noun
*Frījā dag m
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *Frījā dag | |
| Genitive | *Frījā dagas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *Frījā dag | *Frījā dagō, *Frījā dagōs |
| Accusative | *Frījā dag | *Frījā dagā |
| Genitive | *Frījā dagas | *Frījā dagō |
| Dative | *Frījā dagē | *Frījā dagum |
| Instrumental | *Frījā dagu | *Frījā dagum |
Descendants
- Old English: frīġedæġ, frigdæg
- Old Frisian: frīadei, frīendei, frēdei, frēdī, frīgendei
- Old Saxon: *frīadag, *frīgadag
- Middle Low German: vrīdach, vridach, vrigdach, vrigedach, vritdach, frigdach
- → Old Norse: frjádagr (< earlier *fríadagr)
- Icelandic: frjádagur
- Faroese: fríggjadagur
- Middle Norwegian: fræigjadagr (akin to friggjardagr)
- Norwegian: fredag; (dialectal) frei(d)dag, frædag
- Elfdalian: frjådag
- Old Swedish: frēadagher, frīadagher
- Swedish: fredag
- Danish: fredag
- Norwegian Bokmål: fredag
- Gutnish: fredagar, fredag, freda
- → Estonian: reede
- → Finnish: perjantai
- Old Dutch: *frīadag
- Old High German: frīatag, frījetag
- →? Livonian: brēḑig
See also
| Days of the week in Proto-West Germanic · *wikōn dagō (layout · text) | ||||||
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| *Sunnōn dag | *Mānini dag | *Tīwas dag | *Wōdanas dag | *Þunras dag | *Frījā dag | *Sāturnas dag |