þursdæg

Old English

Etymology

Possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thunor's day”), but more likely from Old Norse þōrsdagr or Old Danish þūrsdag (“Thursday”) (compare modern torsdag); all from Proto-Germanic *Þunras dagaz (“Thor's day”), a calque of Latin dies Iovis, equivalent to Old English Þunres (“genitive of the god's name Þunor”) +‎ dæġ (“day”). More at thunder, day.

Noun

þursdæġ m

  1. Thursday

Descendants
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