Old English · noun

þursdæg

Normalised þursdæġ

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /ˈθursˌdæj/
[ˈθurˠzˌdæj]
Syllables: ˈθurs · ˌdæj (2 syllables)
Modern English: thursday

Meaning

Thursday

Declension

Declension of þursdæg
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	þursdæġ	þursdagas
Accusative	þursdæġ	þursdagas
Genitive	þursdæġes	þursdaga
Dative	þursdæġe	þursdagum

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 Danish torsdag); all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”), a calque of Latin dies Iovis, equivalent to Þunres (“genitive of the god's name Þunor”) + dæġ (“day”). More at thunder, day.

Descendants

thursday

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