laugardagr

Old Norse

Etymology

Compound of laug (“bath”) +‎ dagr (“day”), literally "bath day". The former element is cognate with English lye.

Noun

laugardagr m

Saturday

Descendants

Icelandic: laugardagur
Faroese: leygardagur
Norwegian Nynorsk: laurdag, laugardag
Old Swedish: lø̄ghardagher
- Swedish: lördag
- Swedish: (dialectal) lawda, löwda (East Swedish); lovdag, loydag, lögardag (Dalarna); löjdag, lögdag (Västerbotten)
Old Danish: løghærdagh
- Danish: lørdag
  - Norwegian Bokmål: lørdag
Gutnish: laudag
→ Finnish: lauantai
- Kven: lauvantai
- → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
⇒ Estonian: laupäev

See also

days of the week: dagar í vikunni (appendix): mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr · sunnudagr^[edit]

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “laugardagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive