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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

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

And that leaves the etymology of the Latin name Saturn unanswered.
Can anyone give further speculations?

Loreto