Re: [tied] Re: Tor/Tur/(e)

At 12:12:23 AM on Saturday, January 17, 2004, bagoven20
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

>> Anyway, I have a hard time seeing "seven" in Saturn.

> Really! I was having a hard time too. One of my options
> actually is that the word Saturday or our seventh day may
> not have been from "seven" or say Latin 'septm' but
> actually "day of Saturn".

It was, of course. It's from Old English <Sæter(n)dæg>,
<Sæternesdæg>, a translation of Latin <Sa:turni: die:s>
'Saturn's day' (in which <Sætern> itself is a borrowing).

Brian