I LOVE FRIDAY
It’s Friday, a day that always makes me feel happy. I really know nothing about the history of Friday other than it’s between Thursday and Saturday, it’s a preparation day, a finishing off day and usually a day of euphoria because it’s the end of most people’s working week.
As a child it meant no school for two days and for me that was cause to celebrate. But best of all Friday meant the weekend and imminent riding lessons!
Even today I’m excited because it’s Friday. Old habits die hard!
Not too much will change for me as Saturday and Sunday roll around but I still love the idea of having time with Don and slowing down to savour our little world. There’s more time to enjoy the horses give them an extra hug or that long needed brush you put off all week. For some reason your eye notices how the gum trees have finished shedding their bark and the new limbs are pale bone and smooth. Even the sunset appears brighter on Friday evening. It’s as if its spreading the words, ‘especially for you it’s Friday,’ then the world changes to shot gold, orange and red
This Friday I decided to look up my trusty friend Wikipedia and find out about Friday and share it with you.
Enjoy your Friday …
The name Friday comes from the Old English Fredæ?, meaning the “day of Frigg“, a result of an old convention associating the Old English goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Fratag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German and vrijdag in Dutch.
The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be *friggjar-dagr. However, the name of Friday in Old Norse is frjá-dagr instead, indicating a loan of the weekday names from Low German.The modern Scandinavian form is Fredag in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, meaning Freja‘s day. The distinction between Freja and Frigg in some Germanic mythologies is problematic.
The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin dies Veneris or “day of Venus” (a translation of Greek Aphrodites hemera) such asvendredi in French, venerdì in Italian, viernes in Spanish, divendres in Catalan, vennari in Corsican, and vineri in Romanian. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh language as dydd Gwener. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word sexta-feira, meaning “sixth day of liturgical celebration”, derived from the Latin “feria sexta” used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods.
Sardinian chenàpura figures as an exception among all the other Romance languages, since it is derived from Latin cena pura: this name had been given by the Jewish community exiled to the island in order to designate the food specifically prepared for Shabbat eve.
In modern Greek, four of the words for the weekdays derived from ordinals. However, the Greek word for Friday is Paraskevi and is derived from a word meaning “to prepare”. Like Saturday (Savvato) and Sunday, (Kyriaki,), Friday is named for its liturgical significance, as the day of preparation before Sabbath, which was inherited by Greek Christian Orthodox culture from Jewish practices.
Most Slavic languages call Friday the “fifth (day)”: Belarusian – pyatnitsa, Bulgarian , Czech pátek, Russian – pyatnitsa, Serbian – petak,Croatian petak, Slovene petek, Slovak piatok, and Ukrainian – p’yatnitsya. The Hungarian word péntek is a loan from some Slavic language from the time it still had the [n] sound in the word.
In most of the varieties of Arabic, Friday is Jum’a-tul-Mubarak (or a derived variation of Jumu’a), named for Jum’a (congregation/gathering). It also in Indonesian language called Jumat.
In most of the Indian languages, Friday is Shukravar (or a derived variation of Sukravar), named for Shukra, the Sanskrit name of the planet Venus.
In Japanese, kiny-bi is formed from the words kinsei meaning Venus (lit. gold + planet) and bi meaning day (of the week).
In the Korean language, it is in Korean Hangul writing, (Romanization: geumyoil), as is pronounced of the written word in Chinese characters same as in Japanese.
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