Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Wōdanas 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 *Wōdanas (“Woden's, Odin's”) + *dag (“day”), calque of Latin dīes Mercuriī (“Wednesday”, literally “day of Mercury”).
Modern English Wednesday does not continue the Old English wōdnesdæġ but rather unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ, the direct cognate to Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. All these umlauted (i-mutated) forms do not continue *Wōdanas dag but rather *Wōdinas dag, indicating a variation in the theonym in early West Germanic, i.e., *Wōdanaz vs. *Wōdinaz.
Noun
*Wōdanas dag (m)
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *Wōdanas dag | |
| Genitive | *Wōdanas dagas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *Wōdanas dag | *Wōdanas dagō, *Wōdanas dagōs |
| Accusative | *Wōdanas dag | *Wōdanas dagā |
| Genitive | *Wōdanas dagas | *Wōdanas dagō |
| Dative | *Wōdanas dagē | *Wōdanas dagum |
| Instrumental | *Wōdanas dagu | *Wōdanas dagum |
Descendants
- Old English: wōdnesdæġ, *wēdnesdæġ
- Old Frisian: *wōdensdei, wedenesdei, wednesdei
- North Frisian: weedensdai, weensdi
- West Frisian: woansdei
- Old Saxon: *wōdanesdag
- Middle Low German: wōdensdach, gūdenesdach, gūdensdach, gunsdach, gudesdach, gūdenesdach, gūdenstach, gūnstach, kudensdach, wodenesdach, wodensdach, woensdach, wōnesdach, wōnsdach, wūnsdach
- Old Dutch: *wuodansdag
- Old High German: *wuotanstag
- Middle High German: *wuotenstac
- ⇒ Middle High German: guotentac, guotemtac, *guotenstac (rare, regional)
- Central Franconian: Jodesdaach (archaic)
- ⇒ Middle High German: guotentac, guotemtac, *guotenstac (rare, regional)
- Middle High German: *wuotenstac
- → Old Norse: óðinsdagr (calque)
- Icelandic: óðinsdagur
- Faroese: ónsdagur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: onsdag
- Old Swedish: ōþinsdagher
- Swedish: onsdag
- Old Danish: othænsdagh
- Gutnish: onsdag, onsdagar
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 |