It's funny how I was learning Brazilian Portuguese and the days of the week are like Sábado (Saturday), Domingo (Sunday), but then everything starts becoming "days of the fair", segunda-feira, terça-feira, quarta-feira, quinta-feira, sexta-feira...

And I, an English speaker, have the gall to still find this confusing when it comes to intuitively using non-weekends.

Like "BuT wHiCh DaY iS tHoR's DaY?!" Asks the Californian who's never been a Norseman to their knowledge 😂

The Norse called Saturday "Laugerdagr" which translates to washing day/laundry day. They apparently thought doing the wash was equal to worship of their gods. Which, I don't totally disagree. (Cleanliness is next to godliness)

The church wasn't having that though... So they went with the roman God of time. Saturn.

My understanding, though it could be mistaken because I am not a scholar, is that the Germanic peoples were going through and replacing the Roman gods with Norse equivalents. But then they got to Saturn and were like "Hmm, there's not really a good 1-to-1 match here, so I guess he stays"

That might be fully untrue though. 😅

The Japanese do it cooler. They've got sun, moon, and their classical elements. This can be a fun little rabbit hole when trying to understand machine translated business documents

Well it does! "Book" comes from the Germanic word for "Beech", because we used beech to write on. Just like in the prior example.

I'm pretty sure book comes from the French world bouc, which refers to goat skin, which was used to make books in the Middle Ages