Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Frījā dag

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *Frījā (“Frigg's”) +‎ *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Veneris (“Friday”, literally “day of Venus”).

Noun

*Frījā dag m

1. Friday

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*Frījā dag
Genitive	*Frījā dagas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*Frījā dag	*Frījā dagō, *Frījā dagōs
Accusative	*Frījā dag	*Frījā dagā
Genitive	*Frījā dagas	*Frījā dagō
Dative	*Frījā dagē	*Frījā dagum
Instrumental	*Frījā dagu	*Frījā dagum

Descendants

• Old English: frīġedæġ, frigdæg
  • Middle English: Friday, ffryday, Freday, fridai, Fryda, fryday, Vriday, vridei; fridæi, Fridæig, friȝdæi
    • English: Friday
      • Tok Pisin: Fraide
      • → Maori: Paraire
    • Scots: Friday
    • Yola: Vreedie, Vridei, vreedei
• Old Frisian: frīadei, frīendei, frēdei, frēdī, frīgendei
  • North Frisian: freidai
  • Saterland Frisian: Fräindai
  • West Frisian: freed
• Old Saxon: *frīadag, *frīgadag
  • Middle Low German: vrīdach, vridach, vrigdach, vrigedach, vritdach, frigdach
    • German Low German: Freedag, Friedag
    • Plautdietsch: Friedach
  • → Old Norse: frjádagr (< earlier *fríadagr)
    • Icelandic: frjádagur
    • Faroese: fríggjadagur
    • Middle Norwegian: fræigjadagr (akin to friggjardagr)
      • Norwegian: fredag; (dialectal) frei(d)dag, frædag
    • Elfdalian: frjådag
    • Old Swedish: frēadagher, frīadagher
      • Swedish: fredag
    • Danish: fredag
      • Norwegian Bokmål: fredag
    • Gutnish: fredagar, fredag, freda
    • → Estonian: reede
    • → Finnish: perjantai
• Old Dutch: *frīadag
  • Middle Dutch: vrīdach, vriendach
    • Dutch: vrijdag
      • Afrikaans: Vrydag
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: fridaku
      • Jersey Dutch: Vrāidix
      • Negerhollands: vridag, vriedag
      • → Lokono: fridakha, fredakha
      • → Aukan: feeda
      • → Mohegan-Pequot: beitar
      • → Sranan Tongo: freida
        • → Kari'na: freida
      • → Trió: fredi
• Old High German: frīatag, frījetag
  • Middle High German: vrītac
    • Alemannic German: Fritig
      • Italian Walser: fritog, frittag, vrittàg, vréitag
      • Swabian: Freidig, Fri'tig, Freidich
    • Bavarian: Freida
      • Carinthian: Freitog
      • Cimbrian: vraitag, braitag, vraita, fraitak
      • Mòcheno: vraita
      • Styrian: Freitog
      • Udinese: vraitach, vraiti
    • Central Franconian:
      • Kölsch: Friedach
    • East Franconian:
      • Main-Franconian: Freidich
    • German: Freitag
    • Luxembourgish: Freideg
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Palatine German: Freidach
      • Pennsylvania German: Freidaag
    • Vilamovian: fretaog
    • Yiddish: פֿרײַטאָג (fraytog)
• →? Livonian: brēḑig

See also

Days of the week in Proto-West Germanic · *wikōn dagō (layout · text)
*Sunnōn dag	*Mānini dag	*Tīwas dag	*Wōdanas dag	*Þunras dag	*Frījā dag	*Sāturnas dag