sæternesdæg

• sæterndæġ, sæteresdæġ, sæterdæġ

From Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; equivalent to Sætern (“Saturn”) +‎ dæġ (“day”). Ultimately a calque of Latin diēs Sāturnī (“day of Saturn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.ter.nesˌdæj/, [ˈsæ.ter.nezˌdæj]

sæternesdæġ m

1. Saturday; the seventh day of the week
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.

     This time begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.

Strong a-stem:

• sæternniht (“Friday night”)

• Middle English: Saterday, Seterday, Ceterday, Satirday, Saturday, Saturnesday, zeterdai
  • English: Saturday
    • Tok Pisin: Sarere
  • Scots: Seturday
  • Yola: Zathardei, zatherdei