Friday On Wednesday

Since I don't often do articles on Fridays, I decided to post "Friday" on Wednesday. This is the last of the "days of the week." You can find the other days, as well as the history for "day" itself, by clicking on "days of the week" in the labels at the bottom of this article.

This goes back to the Indo European root "pri," which had the notion/meaning "love." In Old Germanic, the "p" became "f," although no one really knows for certain how our Indo European ancestors pronounced each sound, since those dumbbells didn't even have recording devices of any kind. Anyway, this gave Old Germanic "frijaz," meaning "beloved, loving wife." In the realm of Germanic gods there was "Frigg" (also at times spelled "Frigga," especially in English, as in Anglo-Saxon it was spelled "Frige," and the "e" was pronounced like "eh" or a sort "a" back then). She was the wife of Wotan/Woden/Odin (spelling/pronunciation varied by Germanic dialect) and the goddess of "married love." Her name was used by the Germanic tribes for Friday, which back then in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) was "Frigedaeg." Our other Germanic relatives have: German "Freitag," Dutch "vrijdag," Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish "fredag," (West) Frisian "Freed." Icelandic is the exception, and does not use the same form ("föstudagur").