Wednesday

• 水曜日

古英語のwodnesdaeg、Woden's dayから。ゲルマン神話の神Woden、ローマ神話の神Jupiterに対応する。

Wednesday

Wednesday: [OE] The Romans called the middle day of the week Mercurii diēs ‘Mercury’s day’ (source of French mercredi, Italian mercoledì, and Spanish miercoles). The Germanic peoples equated Mercury with their own god Woden or Odin (whose name may etymologically mean the ‘inspired or mad one’), and they translated the Latin term accordingly, giving Dutch woensdag, Swedish and Danish onsdag, and English Wednesday.

Wednesday (n.)

fourth day of the week, Old English wodnesd?g "Woden's day," a Germanic loan-translation of Latin dies Mercurii "day of Mercury" (compare Old Norse Oeinsdagr, Swedish Onsdag, Old Frisian Wonsdei, Middle Dutch Wudensdach). For Woden, see Odin.

Contracted pronunciation is recorded from 15c. The Odin-based name is missing in German (mittwoch, from Old High German mittwocha, literally "mid-week"), probably by influence of Gothic, which seems to have adopted a pure ecclesiastical (i.e. non-astrological) week from Greek missionaries. The Gothic model also seems to be the source of Polish ?roda, Russian sreda "Wednesday," literally "middle."

1. Roland Nilsson last night backed Sheffield Wednesday to win the UEFA Cup.

昨夜ローラン?ネルソンはシェフィールドが水曜日に欧州リーグカップを手にすることを賭けた。

2.Meanwhile the race is on to resurface the road before next Wednesday .

それと同時に来週水曜日までに路面を舗装し直している。

3.Steve had told her that he 'dbeen in an accident on Wednesday night.

スティーブは水曜日の夜に事故があったことを彼女に伝えた。

4.The capital has been without mains water since Wednesday night.

水曜日の夜から首都は断水しています。

5.The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday 's big rally in the city centre.水曜日の都心の大集会が直接の引き金となった。