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The names of the days of the week in many languages are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astrology, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture, either beginning with Sunday or with Monday. In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week.

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  1. Nerone Caesare Augusto Cosso Lentuol Cossil fil. Cos. VIII idus Febr(u)arius dies solis, luna XIIIIX nun(dinae) Cumis, V (idus Februarias) nun(dinae) Pompeis. Robert Hannah, "Time in Written Spaces", in: Peter Keegan, Gareth Sears, Ray Laurence (eds.), Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300, A&C Black, 2013, p. 89. https://books.google.ch/books?id=PeVLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. E. G. Richards, Mapping Time, the Calendar and History, Oxford 1999. p. 269
  3. Falk, Michael (19 March 1999). "Astronomical names for the days of the week". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 93 (1999–06): 122–133. Bibcode: 1999JRASC..93..122F.  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999JRASC..93..122F
  4. "Days of the Week Meaning and Origin". http://astrologyclub.org/days-week-meaning-origin/. Retrieved 25 December 2016. 
  5. http://www.learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com/days-of-the-week-in-portuguese.html
  6. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 7). MS. 17 (now held at St. John's College, Oxford), dating at least from 1043, records five-week-day lists, which it names as follows: secundum Hebreos (according to the Hebrews); secundum antiquos gentiles (according to the ancient gentiles, i.e., Romans); secundum Siluestrum papam (according to Pope Sylvester I, i.e., a list derived from the apocryphal Acta Syluestri); secundum Anglos (according to the English); secundum Scottos (according to the Irish)." id="ref_6">replacing a system of n "one-, three-, five-, ten-, or fifteen-day periods" (>Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 7). MS. 17 (now held at St. John's College, Oxford), dating at least from 1043, records five-week-day lists, which it names as follows: secundum Hebreos (according to the Hebrews); secundum antiquos gentiles (according to the ancient gentiles, i.e., Romans); secundum Siluestrum papam (according to Pope Sylvester I, i.e., a list derived from the apocryphal Acta Syluestri); secundum Anglos (according to the English); secundum Scottos (according to the Irish).
  7. "we have a clear reflex of the Indo-European nominative singular, with a lengthened grade, giving archaic Old Irish diu; it is suggested that what we have in the Oxford list and in Cormac's Glossary is the oldest form of Old Irish dia, representing the old nominative case of the noun in adverbial usage." Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 12
  8. The word scrol is glossed in Sanas Cormaic as Scroll .i. soillsi, unde est aput Scottos diu srol.i. dies solis "Srcoll, that is brightness, whence 'diu srol' among the Irish, that is Sunday".
  9. Ó Cróinín has Diu luna as "represent[ing] the transitional form between Latin dies lunae and the later, Classical Old Irish dia luain ... a translation of, not a calque on, the Latin ... [It] would seem to reflect a pre-assimilation state in respect of both words," Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 13
  10. "The Irish word perhaps derives from Latin forms where cases other than the genitive were used, e.g., Marte."Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 15
  11. A form unique to Irish, meaning uncertain. A "very old" word for Wednesday, Mercúir (borrowed from the Latin (dies) Mercurii), does occur in early Leinster poems but Ó Cróinín is of the belief that Diu eathamon "reflects a still older Irish word for 'Wednesday.'"
  12. A form unique to Irish. Ó Cróinín writes, "I suggest that it means simply 'on Thursday' ... it is temporal dat. of an n-stem (nom. sg. etham, gen. sg. ethamon – as in our Oxford list – and acc./dat. sg. ethamain)." (2003, p. 17) He furthermore suggests that etham ('arable land') "may be a noun of agency from ith (gen. sg. etho), with a meaning like corn-maker or some such thing; Diu eathamon might then be a day for sowing seed in a weekly regimen of activities such as we find in Críth Gablach." Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 17. The form Ethomuin is found in Rawlinson B 502.
  13. A form unique to Irish, its meaning unclear.
  14. [1] " Māori Language Commission names for the days of the week" on Te Kete Ipurangi website, viewed 7 December 2017
  15. Grimm, Jacob (2004). Teutonic Mythology. Courier Corporation. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-0-486-43546-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=I2WhHX2peKEC&pg=PA123. 
  16. Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāsara.
  17. Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāra.
  18. The Chinese encyclopaedia Cihai (辞海) under the entry for "seven luminaries calendar" (七曜历/七曜曆, qī yào lì) has: "method of recording days according to the seven luminaries [七曜 qī yào]. China normally observes the following order: Sun, Mon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Seven days make one week, which is repeated in a cycle. Originated in ancient Babylon (or ancient Egypt according to one theory). Used by the Romans at the time of the 1st century AD, later transmitted to other countries. This method existed in China in the 4th century. It was also transmitted to China by Manichaeans in the 8th century from the country of Kang (康) in Central Asia" (translation after Bathrobe's Days of the Week in Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese, plus Mongolian and Buryat (cjvlang.com) http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html
  19. Falk, Michael (19 March 1999). "Astronomical names for the days of the week". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 93 (1999–06): 122–133. doi:10.1016/j.newast.2003.07.002. Bibcode: 1999JRASC..93..122F.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.newast.2003.07.002
  20. Gray, 2012. The Languages of Pentecost Island.
  21. Ren is "day". Numbered weekdays are used for Tuesday-Friday and sometimes Monday; the names for Saturday and Sunday come from English.
  22. "Days of the Week in Chinese: Three Different Words for 'Week'". http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowchin.html. Retrieved 27 October 2016. 
  23. Richard A. Fletcher (1999). The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity. University of California Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-520-21859-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=RB5aWgr7l-gC&pg=PA257.  McKenna, Stephen (1938). "Pagan Survivals in Galicia in the Sixth Century". Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain Up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom. Catholic University of America. pp. 93–94. http://libro.uca.edu/mckenna/paganism.htm. Retrieved 20 March 2013. 
  24. "Swahili days, months, dates". Archived from the original on 9 August 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070809075823/http://mwanasimba.online.fr/E_Chap24.htm. 
  25. [2]
  26. Astronomy and Basque Language, Henrike Knörr, Oxford VI and SEAC 99 "Astronomy and Cultural Diversity", La Laguna, June 1999. It references Alessandro Bausani, 1982, The prehistoric Basque week of three days: archaeoastronomical notes, The Bulletin of the Center for Archaeoastronomy (Maryland), v. 2, 16–22. http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?articulo=26362&orden=59718
  27. See the image in Anthony, Charlotte. "Rushing to preserve Ladino legacies". http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/rushing-to-preserve-ladino-legacies/. Retrieved 31 May 2016.  The Ladino names are in the right-hand column, written in Hebrew characters.
  28. Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amai Eelon Pukok PuYa
  29. Wachetlon Pathup PuYa
  30. Kham Oi Yang Oi Sekning PuYa
  31. Nunglekpam, Premi Devi (2018-05-25). Short Essays on Women and Society: Manipuri Women through the Century. FSP Media Publications. https://books.google.com/?id=1xBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=Meetei+according+to+wangkhemcha+chingtamlen#v=onepage&q=Meetei%20according%20to%20wangkhemcha%20chingtamlen&f=false. 
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