R: Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about nouns of days and months

john wrote:

> > Then comes the French form samedi /sam'di/. It seems
> > completely off this system. Does it derive from, say, sábbata dies, or
does it
> > have another origin?
>
> I have no clue, but I'm reminded of German "Samstag".
AFA my German teacher told me, 'Samstag' is a French loan, the original
German being Sonnabend. But I'm not sure... she helds that spähen, Fehde and
Helm are of Latin origin simply because they are used also in Italian (as
spiare, faida and elmo) - these Italian words are, OTOH, German-ic loans.

Luca