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The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" is followed by a number indicating the day: "Monday" is literally the "Stellar Period One"/"Cycle One", that is, the "First day of the Stellar Period/Cycle", etc.
The Finnish name is keskiviikko ('middle of the week'), as is the Icelandic name: miðvikudagur, and the Faroese name: mikudagur ('mid-week day'). Some dialects of Faroese have ónsdagur, though, which shares etymology with Wednesday. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish onsdag, (Ons-dag meaning Odens dag 'Odin's day').
A week is a unit of time equal to seven days.It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship.
Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the 4th day of the week. [1] In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. [2]
Likewise, the Modern Hebrew name for Monday is yom-sheni (יום שני). While in North America, Sunday is the first day of the week, the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization places Monday as the first day of the week in its ISO 8601 standard. Monday is xīngqīyī (星期一) in Chinese, meaning "day one of the week".
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The name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day". [2] Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz , or Týr in Old Norse . *Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei- , *deyā- , *dīdyā- , meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as " deity ".
The modern Māori name for Saturday, rāhoroi, literally means "washing-day" – a vestige of early colonized life when Māori converts would set aside time on the Saturday to wash their whites for Church on Sunday. [16] A common alternative Māori name for Saturday is the transliteration hātarei.