Tidying and re-bumping this from 2005 because I'm still dying to know
what you all think:
there is something I have been wondering about:
Tuesday ='s Dingstag, Dinstag, and Dienstag .. which superficially
sounds like Things-day.
Some have stated that German Dingstag & Dienstag, Dutch Dinstag, etc
are, like the Norse Thing, derived from the PGmc *thingam (from PIE
*tenk-1).
However, I read in Grimm, that Dingstag, Dinstag, and Dienstag ALL
stem from NOT from the Thing but rather they develop as a derivation
of Tiwaz -> Tie.
here it is....
Grimm's Teutonic Mythology states:
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/006_09.php
"The insertion of the liquid has corrupted the word, and brought in
quite irrelevant notions. 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? and whether Grimm was right or wrong on this one??
Sincerely,
Aydan