#every day has some interesting etymological stories but saturday has the most to me

[jewfrogs]

Fave day by vibe alone?

the best day for it to be is friday! i know everybody says this but everybody is right on that count

however what i was thinking of in my mind with that was the names of the days in different languages, and on that metric its saturday, because

so many languages have variants of shabbat and i like what they do with the letters;

in early german languages most of the latin day names were calqued with comparable norse deities (e.g. dies iovis [day of jupiter] -> *Þunras dag [day of thor]) but saturns was not (dies saturni -> *Sāturnas dag [day of saturn]) and we dont know why (there are some theories but none of them are good/satisfying theories) which is a nice mystery;

some languages base the name on saturn the planet, such as japanese 土曜日 which is from 土星, a combination of 土 (earth/soil) + 星 (star), and i like that there is a day of soil; and

in some mostly scandinavian languages the name comes instead from the old norse laug[r] (e.g. danish lørdag), which means bath, so saturday is the washing-day, and—apparently completely coincidentally—the te reo māori name rāhoroi means the same thing