Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Sāturnas dag

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.

From *Sāturnas, *Saturnas (“Saturn's”) +‎ *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Sāturnī (“Saturday”, literally “day of Saturn”). The Old English form appears to descend from a variant form *Saturnas dag (with short a), as one would otherwise expect sǣternesdæg.

In all (modern) High and most Low German dialects, other words for Saturday are found instead which commonly refer to Sunday or the Sabbath day, e.g. Old High German sambaztag (literally “Sabbath-day”) (modern German Samstag), and Old High German sunnūnāband (literally “Sunday eve”) (modern German Sonnabend) (see also Old English sunnanǣfen (“evening before Sunday”) and Old Norse sunnunótt (“night before Sunday”)).

*Sāturnas dag m

1. Saturday

• Old English: sæternesdæġ, sæterndæġ, sæteresdæġ, sæterdæġ
  • Middle English: Saterday, Seterday, Ceterday, Satirday, Saturday, Saturnesday, zeterday
    • English: Saturday
      • Tok Pisin: Sarere
    • Scots: Seturday
    • Yola: Zathardei, zatherdei
• Old Frisian: sāterdei
  • West Frisian: saterdei, saterje
  • Saterland Frisian: Saterdag
• Old Saxon:
  • Middle Low German: satersdach
    • Dutch Low Saxon: zaoterdag
    • German Low German: Saterdag
• Old Dutch:
  • Middle Dutch: saterdach
    • Dutch: zaterdag, Zaterdag, Zaturdag, zaturdag (obsolete spellings)
      • Afrikaans: Saterdag
      • Negerhollands: saeterdag, saterdag
      • → Lokono: satdakha, satradakha
      • → Mohegan-Pequot: zotortar
      • → Sranan Tongo: satra
        • → Kari'na: satra
    • Limburgish: zaoterdig
    • West Flemish: zoaterdag
• Old High German:
  • Middle High German: sātirsdach (Ripuarian)
    • Central Franconian: Sodeschdaach, Sodeschdig (obsolete)