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It’s freeday, or Frigg’s day, or FRIDAY !!!!

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Brad
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  FRIDAY means it’s the week-end !!!!!!   We often glide away from work feeling free, seeking friends, and… shall we dare say it…     seeking LOVE !!!   The crazy thing is that, etymologically-speaking, friday actually reflects all 3 of these meanings- freedom, friendship, love.  It’s true, but don’t take my word for it.  Discover here for yourself—- to do so, we’ll have to set off on another journée in language to trace the etymology of friday back age by age, and language by language.  Today is special, though, because we’ve talked about the ancient Indo-European language family (…)

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Monday Madness… blame it on the moon

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Brad
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  All the words below come from a common 4500 year old root   “mē“, the common Indo-European root means to “to measure”.   Pause for 20 seconds, and slip into the shoes (or barefeet maybe) of our ancestors… thousands of years ago… living outside, “in the elements”.   What would the moon have meant to them? How would it have served as measurement in their lives?     I imagine our ancestors would’ve looked at the sun or moon to measure all sorts of natural events and “predict” (pre-say) what was to come.  The mayans certainly had an amazingly intricate (…)

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Spinning Saturday

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Brad
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  It will come as no surprise to those who have read the last two etymology entries (origins of tuesday and thursday), that Saturday also reflects human relation to a “higher power”.  SATurday is from Saturn, the god of Agriculture. See him below with a sicle in his hand? In Roman mythology, Saturn was king of all of the universe for “untold ages”, after booting his daddy from the throne.  Like any powerful ruler, though, he too feared his demise, so Saturn had a nagging habit of eating his children in order to keep them from usurping the throne (that (…)

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