weorcdæg

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *werkadagaz. Cognate with Old High German werctag and Old Norse verkdagr. Equivalent to weorc +‎ dæġ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwe͜orkˌdæj/, [ˈwe͜orˠkˌdæj]

Noun

weorcdæġ m

1. workday (day on which work is done; in Anglo-Saxon England, typically any day but Sunday)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	weorcdæġ	weorcdagas
accusative	weorcdæġ	weorcdagas
genitive	weorcdæġes	weorcdaga
dative	weorcdæġe	weorcdagum

Descendants

• Middle English: werkday
  • English: workday

See also

• wicdæġ

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “weorc-dæg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.