Re: [tied] Germanic Tuesday.... Was Some more Germanic and Frisian

At 6:26:02 AM on Friday, October 7, 2005, A. wrote:

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

>> 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.

The OHG is <Zîos tag>, from Zîu, who was equated with Mars.
According to Fritz Tschirch, Geschichte der deutschen
Sprache, on the Lower Rhine he was also called <Thingsus>,
as protector of the Thing, and the modern form is a mixture
of the two.

Brian