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| CKBrown1000 Newbie United States Joined 5574 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 5 26 August 2009 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
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Has anyone noticed that Monday which hails from the old English "mōnandæg" means day of the moon, while the Japanese 月曜日 (げつようび, getsuyoubi)literally means the same thing. Just curious how it happens that two languages that have no connection whatsoever have this same thing about them. Same with SUNday; ie, 日曜日 (にちようび, nichiyoubi). Edited by CKBrown1000 on 26 August 2009 at 8:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6596 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes  Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic | Message 2 of 5 26 August 2009 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
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Wikipedia has an interesting article on this, and there is a nice chart of the days of the week in various languages here.
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| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5612 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 3 of 5 26 August 2009 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
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Ancient China gives names for each day of a week with 「七曜」(seven 曜s):
日曜日＝星期日（Sunday） 月曜日＝星期一（Monday） 火曜日＝星期二（Tuesday） 水曜日＝星期三（Wednesday） 木曜日＝星期四（Thursday） 金曜日＝星期五（Friday） 土曜日＝星期六（Saturday） 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6706 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 4 of 5 26 August 2009 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
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Because they all ultimately came from the same source? The seven day week is a fairly modern construct in China, and probably in Japan as well. One Web site I read implied that the seven day week was introduced in China back around the end of the Tang dynasty coming like so many good ideas did, across the Central Asian plains from India. They were only used for astronomical purposes, however. Another pointed out that it was only made official in 1912, after the end of the Qing dynasty. For most of their history, China has a ten day week, three weeks to a month.
Here, check out the article here: www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html. Edited by Raincrowlee on 26 August 2009 at 5:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5612 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 5 of 5 27 August 2009 at 6:43am | IP Logged |
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In ancient China, roughly speaking, early in「Jìn Dynasty／Jìn Cháo／晋朝」(265–420), an astronomical term「七曜／Qī Yào」(日 rì／月 yuè／火 huǒ／水 shuǐ／木 mù／金 jīn／土 tǔ) was formalized to record seven days of each week, and this Calendar was valid until Republic of China (Mainland). But in Japan & Korea, luckily it's still in use now. In modern China, people replaced「X 曜日」with「星期 Y」（formal）,「礼拜 Y」(informal／Christian term), &「周 Y」(colloquial).
X＝日／月／火／水／木／金／土． Y＝日／一／二／三／四／五／六． 1 person has voted this message useful |
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