Germanic Tuesday.... Was Some more Germanic and Frisian terms

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "A." <xthanex@...> wrote:

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> there is something I have been wondering about:
> Tuesday ='s Dingstag, Dinstag, and Dienstag .. which superficially
> sounds like Things-day, and thus strengthens the connection between
> Tiw and the assembly known as the Thing.

A common example of this view is:
"The German word Dienst holds one of the keys to associate him with
the court or the Thing. Dienst in Modern German means service and is
used to describe a court or better yet a court official. While the
modern Dutch name is Dingstag and this is a direct link to the old
Germanic Thing because Ding in both Dutch and German means a thing or
better yet the Thing."

> However, I read somewhere.. (and I sadly cannot recall where) that
> Dingstag, Dinstag, and Dienstag ALL stem from NOT from the Thing
> but rather they develop as a derivation of Tiw or Tig or some such.
>
> oh, here it is....
> Grimm's Teutonic Mythology states:
> http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/006_09.php
> "In central Germany the form diestag, ticstag [[[Tie's day?]]]
> seems to predominate (diestik in the Rhön), whence our dienstag
> (less correctly dinstag, there is good reason for the ie); the
> spelling dingstag [[[thing's day]]], as if from ding, thing,
> judicium, is false; dinstag occurs in Gaupps magdeb. recht p. 272."
>
> Could anyone clarify this and tell me what seems to be supported by
> the experts?

Any thoughts on whether Grimm was right or wrong on this one??

Sincerely,
Aydan