Etymograph

English

Saturday

Saturday comes from Proto-West Germanic *dag ‘day’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dagaz‘day’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dag‘day’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanic, derivedc. 200–500 CE*Sāturnas dagreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sæterdæġ
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Saterday
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1913Saturday

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dagaz‘day’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dag‘day’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanic, derivedc. 200–500 CE*Sāturnas dagreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sæterdæġ
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Saterday
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1913Saturday

Earliest quotation: 1913, Bell Telephone News: “Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed…”

Formed from Saturn + day

Latin Sāturnus

Old English Sætern

English Saturn

Proto-Germanic *dagaz

Proto-West Germanic *dag

Old English dæġ ‘day’

Middle English day ‘a day’

English day

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‘to burn’

dear, fever, darling, febrile, foment, 20 more

through Proto-Germanic *dagaz ‘day’

dawn, daw, 1 more

through Proto-West Germanic *dag ‘day’

day, 1 more

Today it means

noun The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *dagaz / Saturday

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