What is the origin of monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday?

Answer 1

Sunday

This name is from Old English/Anglo saxon (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "day of the sun"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages.(Wikipedia)

Monday

This name is from the Anglo-Saxon monandaeg, "the moon's day". This day was sacred to the goddess of the moon.

Tuesday

This day was named for the Norse god Tyr.

Wednesday

The day named in honor of Wodan (Odin).

Thursday

The day named after the Norse god Thor. In the Norse languages this day is called Torsdag.

Friday

The day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg.

Saturday

This day is dedicated to dies Saturni, "Saturn's Day", by the ancient Romans in honor of Saturn. In Anglo-Saxon: sater daeg.

monday-the moon's day

tuesday-tui's day

wednesday-wodan's day

thursday-thor's day

friday-freya's day

saturday-saturn's day

sunday-the sun's day

Answer 2

Thee are a few options for the origin. Named after

• Frya (also known as Freya) is the goddess whose sacred day is Friday
• Frige the Old English form of Frigg.

Answer 3

In the novel Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe had a man he called Friday as his helper. Friday did just about anything Crusoe asked him to do. Girl Friday is a reference to a female worker who can and will do just about any sort of work her boss demands, just as the man Friday did for Crusoe.

Answer 4

the name Friday comes from an old English word meaning frigg and Friday is the 5 day of the week and falls between Thursday and Saturday