tirsdag

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse tý(r)sdagr, borrowed from Old Saxon *tiuwesdag or Old Frisian tīesdei, from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag, cognate with English Tuesday.

A compound of Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz (“Tyr”) + *dagaz (“day”), a calque of Latin diēs Mārtis (literally “day of Mars”), which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἡμέρα Ἄρεως (hēméra Áreōs, literally “day of Ares”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tirsdag c (singular definite tirsdagen, plural indefinite tirsdage)

  1. Tuesday

Declension

Declension of tirsdag
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tirsdag tirsdagen tirsdage tirsdagene
genitive tirsdags tirsdagens tirsdages tirsdagenes

See also

(days of the week) ugedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag (Category: da:Days of the week)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Danish tirsdag, from Old Norse týsdagr, týrsdagr, from Týr (“Tyr”) and dagr (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag, a calque of Latin dies Martis.

Noun

tirsdag m (definite singular tirsdagen, indefinite plural tirsdager, definite plural tirsdagene)

  1. Tuesday

See also

(days of the week) ukedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag (Category: nb:Days of the week)

References

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