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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

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, Saturday is referred as "Sabbath" day (following the Jewish tradition of the Sabbath being on Saturday), e.g. Old High German sambaztag (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”)).

Noun

*Sāturnas dag m

  1. Saturday

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *Sāturnas dag(a)
Genitive *Sāturnas dagas
Singular Plural
Nominative *Sāturnas dag(a) *Sāturnas dagōs
Accusative *Sāturnas dag(a) *Sāturnas dagā
Genitive *Sāturnas dagas *Sāturnas dagō
Dative *Sāturnas dagē *Sāturnas dagum
Instrumental *Sāturnas dagu *Sāturnas dagum

Descendants

See also

Days of the week in Proto-West Germanic · *wikōn dagō (layout · text)
*Mānini dag *Tīwas dag *Wōdanas dag *Þunras dag *Frījā dag *Sāturnas dag *Sunnōn dag
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