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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Wōdanas 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 *Wōdanas (“Woden's, Odin's”) +‎ *dag (“day”), calque of Latin dīes Mercuriī (“Wednesday”, literally “day of Mercury”).

Modern English Wednesday doesn't continue the Old English wōdnesdæġ but rather unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ, direct cognate to Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. All these umlauted (i-mutated) forms don't continue *Wōdanas dag but rather *Wōdinas dag, indicating a variation in the theonym in early West Germanic, *Wōdanaz vs. *Wōdinaz.

Noun

*Wōdanas dag (m)

  1. Wednesday

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *Wōdanas dag
Genitive *Wōdanas dagas
Singular Plural
Nominative *Wōdanas dag *Wōdanas dagō, *Wōdanas dagōs
Accusative *Wōdanas dag *Wōdanas dagā
Genitive *Wōdanas dagas *Wōdanas dagō
Dative *Wōdanas dagē *Wōdanas dagum
Instrumental *Wōdanas dagu *Wōdanas dagum

Descendants
  • Old English: wōdnesdæġ, *wēdnesdæġ
  • Old Frisian: *wōdensdei, wedenesdei, wednesdei
    • North Frisian: weedensdai, weensdi
    • West Frisian: woansdei
  • Old Saxon: *wōdanesdag
    • Middle Low German: wōdensdach, gūdenesdach, gūdensdach, gunsdach, gudesdach, gūdenesdach, gūdenstach, gūnstach, kudensdach, wodenesdach, wodensdach, woensdach, wōnesdach, wōnsdach, wūnsdach
  • Old Dutch: *wuodansdag
    • Middle Dutch: woedensdag
      • Dutch: woensdag
        • Afrikaans: Woensdag
        • Jersey Dutch: Wônsdix
        • Negerhollands: wuensdag, woensdag
        • → Lokono: wunsdakha, onsdakha
        • → Mohegan-Pequot: wonsartar
      • West Flemish: woensdag, oensdag
      • Limburgish: goonsdig, goonsdag, wuensdag
  • Old High German: *wuotanstag
    • Middle High German: *wuotenstac
      • ⇒ Middle High German: guotentac, guotemtac, *guotenstac (rare, regional)
  • → Old Norse: óðinsdagr (calque)

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