Where Do the Names for Days of the Week Come From?
Language connections
Where Do the Names of the Days Come From?
Select a day to discover how planets, Roman deities, Germanic gods and religious traditions shaped the names of the week across Europe.
Selected day
Sunday
Celestial or cultural link
Roman or Latin tradition
See the connections
Two routes through the week
Romance route
Germanic route
What is happening here?
Word history
The complete week
The naming pattern at a glance
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