týsdagr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• *tísdagr — Old East Norse

Etymology

Calque of Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag (possibly via a later West-Germanic language), itself a calque of Latin diēs Martis

Noun

týsdagr m

1. Tuesday

Descendants

• Icelandic: týsdagur (archaic)
• Faroese: týsdagur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tysdag
• Old Swedish: tīsdagher
  • Swedish: tisdag
• Old Danish: tisdagh
  • Danish: tirsdag, tisdag
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tirsdag
• Gutnish: teisdagar, teisdag
• → Finnish: tiistai

See also

• days of the week: dagar í vikunni (appendix): sunnudagr · mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr ^[edit]