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Word for Thursday in European Languages (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Finnish word looks oddly germanic(?) Was it affected by Swedish?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Borrowed from Old Swedish þōrsdagher, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”).

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/torstai

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh interesting, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

When in doubt, always guess it’s a Swedish loanword. You’ll be right surprisingly often.