Eastern Slavic Languages Names of the Weekdays and Their Reconstructed Origin
Posted: Friday, November 05, 2010
by IvanPetryshyn
Ivan Petryshyn
i. introduction
The names of weekdays in Ukrainian, as much as in Polish, Byelorussian and Russian, seem to be self-identifying:
/pohneh'deelok, ponie'dzial'ek, panie'dzielahk, panie'diel'nik/ = the day after the NON-WORKING (ne'deelia)
/veev'tohrohk, wto'rek, 'ftohrneek/ = the SECOND DAY
/cheht'vehr, czwartek, chahts'vier, chie'tvierg/ = the FOURTH DAY
/'p"yahtnyhtsyah, 'pia,tek, 'piatnitsa/ = the FIFTH DAY
/suh'bohtah, so'bota, suh'bohtah/ = the Sabbath Day
/neh'deelia, nie'dziela, nya'dziela/{Russian "vahskriesien'ie", which is out of the row, denoting the Resurrection Day}.
It all could be OK, as in the Lettish Language, for example, (we know how close are the Baltic and the Slavic Languages, esp., the Eastern Slavic Languages) the days are given the names acc. to the order they are traced- "the first, the second, etc.
The question arises when we come to opposing the Eastern Slavic Weekdays with other language, such as Germanic or Romance. We are aware of the uncompromising fact that in those languages, the names of the days are given as homage to the mythological dieties of the Past. But, again, we know that the Slavic Mythology being different and not-well preserved had nearly the same gods as other Cultures of the Indo-Iranian Areal. So, was that that the names of the days were insignificant to the Slavic Languages mentioned as the sign of the underdevelopment? The names of the gods known even today, as remnants of the Past Civilization named by Mirolyubov, a Russian scholar and also mentioned by me in an article (see: www.searchwarp.com) and in the reconstruction of the mythological characters that denoted/could denote the names of the day in the Slavic Calendar-Kolodar-Kalendarz, could make us think that the names of the weekdays are not at all the surface-denoting coinages and might have undergone many changes due to the historical reasons and due to the religious necessities.
One think could be evident, if we accept the validity of the thought, even if a crazy one, that the names of the weekdays could be the symbolic names of the pagan civilization's names of the deities. Then, the things will be more complicated.
So, what could they mean?
1.PON-EH- DEEL-OK
PON-IE-DIEL' - N- EEK
PON-IE-DZIAHL-EHK
PLANE(T)-DALES (DELS^ = Son)? = part of the planet's son? (part of the Moon)?
2. VEEV-TOH-R-OHK
F -TOH-R-N EEK
WTOH- R- EHK ? the day of the Thor?= Pehrun?
3. SEH-REH-DAH
S- RIE-DAH
S'- ROH- DAH = ? Swae-roh-dag?= the day of Swarog?
4. CHEH-TW-EHR
CHIE-TWIE-RG
CH- WAHR-TEHK = Chwary-tag + the Day of the War-keeper?the Day of the Thunder? (see Ukrainian :"chwahry")
5. PYAH-TNYH-TSIA
PIAH-TNEE-TSAH
PIO,-(N)T-EHK = masculine! = Priah-tag/Friede-tag/Bieds-tag = the day of Liberty/Pleasure/Friendship
6. SUH-BOH-TAH
SU'-BO'-TAH
SOH-BOH-TAH= ?Swaet-tag = Swohd-tag = the day of the Sky/Union/Link
7. NEH-DEE-L'YAH
NIE-DZIE-LAH = ?Dnehbes-Dehls'-tag/dag = the Day of the Son of the Sky (Moon)
(Possible but disputable variants of one of the possible reconstructions of the Days'names).
Ivan Petryshyn USA
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