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In article <1ibjtkINN3bb@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk>, sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber) writes:
> In article <8519@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>>In article <1i9q5iINNk14@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber) writes:
>> > In article <1993Jan4.152515.16062@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> gvanmoor@nrao.edu writes:
>> > >Whether 'Saterdag' is originally Frisian I do not know. I do know that
>> > >'Zaterdag' is THE Dutch word for Saturday.
>> > >
>> > do you know the derivation of Zaterdag?
>> > 
>>The same as Saturday.
> 
> yes, from Saturn. but I have a friend interested in the names
> of the days of the week and he wonders how it is that they
> emerged from the Anglo-Saxon-Jute invasions of Romano-Celtic
> Britain with 6 Teutonic gods and 1 Roman god. apparently
> Saturn would be 1 of about 2 Latin words to have survived
> the invasions.

What does this last mean?  Are you claiming that the _Saturni dies_
survived *in Britain*?  Hardly, if the Frisians have it too.  Rather,
you must be claiming that it's one of only two old borrowings into
Germanic.  But that's wrong.  Examples: wall < vallum, cheese < caseum,
wine < vinum, street < (via) strata, cheap < caupo 'innkeeper', kitchen
< coquina, mile < mille passuum, pepper < piper, pound < pondus, dish
< discus, tile < tegula.  The phonology of *all* of these, and of their
German analogues, points to borrowing during the period of the Roman
conquest.  A later borrowing of _vinum_ would have yielded *_vine_,
_strata_ > *_strate_, etc.

--Leo Connolly

--Leo Connolly