Wotanstag

German

Etymology

From Wotan (“Odin”) +‎ -s- +‎ Tag (“day”), a learned calque of Middle Low German wôdenesdach and other descendants of Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag. Doublet of earlier Wodenstag, which is directly from Middle Low German. Compare English Wednesday.

Noun

Wotanstag m (strong, genitive Wotanstags or Wotanstages, plural Wotanstage)

  1. (rare, learned, Germanophile) Wednesday

Declension
Declension of Wotanstag [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Wotanstag die Wotanstage
genitive eines des Wotanstags, Wotanstages der Wotanstage
dative einem dem Wotanstag, Wotanstage1 den Wotanstagen
accusative einen den Wotanstag die Wotanstage

1Now rare, see notes.

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