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126 GODS.
(conf. Frud) ;
the final n in sneyn, no doubt, as in OFris. Frigendei,
a relic of the old gen. sing, in the weak decl. II. moandey. III.
Tyesdcy. IV. Wdnsdey. V. Tongersdey. VI. Fred, abbrev. from
Fredey. VII. sniuwn, snioun, abbrev. from sinnejuwn = Sun(day)even.
Conf. tegenwoordige staat van Friesland 1, 121. Was-
senbergh s bidraghen 2, 56. Halbertsma naoogst p. 281-2 (see
Suppl.).
NORTH FEISIAN. I. sennendei. II. monnendei. III. Tirsdei.
IV. Winsdei. V. Tursdei. VI. Fridei. VII. sennin (in= even).
ANGLO-SAXON. I. sonnan dseg. II. monan daeg. III. 2Y?0es
dseg. IV. Wodenes or Forces daeg. V. Thunores dceg. VI.
-Fr^e daag. VII. Scetres or Sceternes daeg.
OLD NORSE. I. sunnudagr. 1 II mdnadagr. III. Tyrsdagr,
Tysdagr. IV. O&insdagr. V. Thorsdagr. VI. Friadagr, Frey-
judagr. VII. laugardagr.
SWEDISH. I. sondag. II. mandag. III. Tisdag, whence
even Finn, tystai. IV. Onsdag. V. Tliorsdag. VI. Fredag
VII. lordag.
DANISH. I sondag. II. mandag. III. Tirsdag. IV. Ows-
c%. V. Torsdag. VI. Fredag. VII. loverdag (see Suppl.).
We see, it is only in the seventh day that the Scandinavian
names depart from the
means bath-day because
Saxon, Frisian and Dutch : laugardagr
people bathed at the end of the week.
Yet even here there may be some connexion ; a Latin poem of the
9th century on the battle of Fontenay (Bouquet 7, 304) has the
singular verse : Sabbatum non illud fuit, sed Saturni dolium ; a
devil s bath ? conf. ch. XII, Saturn. [The Germ, for carnage is
blutbad, blood-bath.]
Even if the Germans from the earliest times knew the week of
seven days from the four phases of the lunar change, 2
yet the
1
This ON. sunnudagr is noticeable, as in other cases sol is used rather than
sunna ; sunnudagr seems to have been formed by the Christian teachers in imita
tion of the other Teutonic languages. The Swed. and Dan. sondag (instead of
Boldag) must have been taken bodily from a Plattdeutsch form.
2 To the Lat. word vix, gen. vicis
(change, turn) corresponds, without the
usual consonant-change, the Gothic vikti, OHG. wecha and wehsal, both refer
able to the verb veika, vaik, OHG. wiclm (I give way), because change is a
giving way [in German, der wechsel ist ein weichen ]. Ulph. has viko only
once, Lu. 1, 8, where ey 777 ragci TTJS f^^epias is translated *
in vikon kunjis ; it
is evidently something more than rd^ts here, it expresses at the same time a part
of the gen. e^/ufptay, therefore lit. in vice generis , which the Vulg. renders