A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions aboutnouns of days and months
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 27, 2000, 21:01 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
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> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
<snip>
> > > 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".
> >
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> Yeah! Compared to Saturday or Zaterdag, it's really a strange form. Does it
> derive also from "Sabbath day" or whatever it was in Old Germanic?
Semi-related anectote: One of my friends' German mother insists on
saying "Sonnabend", a word I've never heard except from her. She claims
it's northern German.
Perhapts Samstag comes from French samedi, just Germanicised.
--
Robert