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Wednesday is named originally after Mercury: god of commerce or merchandise (Latin: merx), who was considered swift in traveling from place to place.

The English name comes from Wednes dei, which is day of Woden. Middle English for this god is Wooden from the early Anglo-Saxons to about the 7th century, a similar god to Mercury. In Spanish, the name for Wednesday is Meircoles, in the Roman heritage of Mercury.

In Norse this name was Óðinn, or Odin in Modern Scandinavian, Germanic was Wodanaz, Wotan in modern German. He was known as Allfather Wotan, or father of all, ultimately to become Father Winter or Father Christmas in England.

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