Did you know the French days of the week..

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Are named after the planets and moon? Lundi (Luna, moon)
Mardi (Mars)
Mercredi (Mercury)
Jeudi (Jupiter)
Vendredi (Venus)
Samedi (Saturn)
Dimanche is the only one that isn’t. It’s the day of the lord.

interesting

From the Latin.

Whereas we mix astronomical objects and Norse gods in English: (had to look some of these up)

Moon-day
Tiu's-day
Woden's-day
Thor's-day
Freya-day
Saturn-day
Sun-day

Ooh! That is so interesting @DadDadDad

I never knew that either

What? You never knew our days were named after gods?

Do you know the origin of the names of our months?

Three of our days are named after Goddesses.

I knew about the french days of the week & that our months are named after Roman gods & emperors & latin numbers but I didn't know about our days of the week.

Ooh I love learning new things!

And did you know....that the French days of the week can be sung using the Eastenders theme tune. Easiest way to get them remember them!

It's not so much of a mix-up as a compromise. The astronomical objects have their own deities associated with them and are probably a leftover from the Roman invasion, whose Gods were named long before we discovered all those planets.
So all our weekdays are named after deities

I knew that we originally had 10 months of the year, but Julius and Augustus Caesar slotted in July and August.

It messed up the rest of the months though. Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec should be 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Yes I knew that.

I knew the days but had never thought of what they are named from.

Ok - just tried singing French days of the week in Eastenders theme tune - apparently it’s morphed into ‘Where is love ‘ from Oliver.

I’m sorry but I want to introduce the concept that samedi comes from Latin & Greek, not Saturn

‘From Old French samedi, from Vulgar Latin sambatum and sambati dies, from Latin Sabbatī diēs, variant of diēs Sabbatī (“day of the Sabbath”), from sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton) (Modern Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato)), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabát). See also sabbat, chabbat.’

Saturn was discovered by Galileo in 1610.

In Ireland it’s a real hodge podge (open to corrections here):
De Luain (Lugh- Celtic God)
De Máirt (Mars)
De Céadaoin (First fast)
Deardaoin (from “idir dhá aoin”- day between two fasts)
De hAoine (Main fast)
De Sathairn (Saturn)
De Domhnaigh (Lord’s Day)

What? You never knew our days were named after gods?

I didn't know that, or if I was taught that at school I had forgotten.

Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture, the god came before the planet.

This is really interesting, thanks!

Please can people concentrate on the planets being named after Roman/Norse gods. Mars is the Roman god of war.

And Venus the Goddess of beauty

& this is why children need a broad education, history to teach you about the Roman Empire, Vikings and the Norman Conquest, Galileo and issues with the church.

Yes, I did know this - it's an interesting subject. I believe German follows a similar pattern, other that Mittwoch (Wednesday) - any experts, please do correct me.

Julius and Augustus renamed the months. The extra months had been slotted in centuries before the Caesars came to power.
www.timeanddate.com/calendar/roman-calendar.html

What? You never knew our days were named after gods?

No I didn’t know that. And I’m not afraid to admit I don’t know something, and neither do I find it embarrassing.

Thanks for that @RedLemon, very interesting!

So, planets were named after Gods/deities and days of the week were named after the planets? Or the Gods themselves? Were planets named first or days of the week?