laugardagr

Old Norse

Etymology

From laug (“pool”) +‎ dagr (“day”), literally "bathing day". The former element is cognate to English lye.

Noun

laugardagr m

Saturday

Descendants

Icelandic: laugardagur
Faroese: leygardagur
Norwegian Nynorsk: laurdag, laugardag
Old Swedish: lø̄ghardagher
- Swedish: lördag
- Swedish: (dialectal) lawda, löwda (East Swedish); lovdag, loydag, lögardag (Dalarna)
Old Danish: løghærdagh
- Danish: lørdag
  - Norwegian Bokmål: lørdag
Gutnish: laudag
→ Finnish: lauantai
- Kven: lauvantai
- → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
⇒ Estonian: laupäev

See also

(days of the week) dagar í vikunni; sunnudagr, mánadagr/mánudagr, týsdagr, óðinsdagr, þórsdagr, frjádagr, laugardagr ^{(Category: non:Days of the week)}

References

“laugardagr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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