From: A.
Message: 41147
Date: 2005-10-08
>Anyone?
> 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??