Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Tīwas 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 *Tīwas (“Tiw's”) +‎ *dag (“day”), calque of Latin diēs Mārtis (“Tuesday”, literally “day of Mars”).

Noun

*Tīwas dag m

1. Tuesday

Inflection

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

Descendants

• Old English: tiwesdæġ
  • Middle English: Tewesday, Tiwesday, Tisday, Tisdæi, Tywysday, tiwesday, twesday
    • English: Tuesday
    • Scots: Tysday
    • Yola: Tusedei, tuesdei
• Old Frisian: tīesdei
  • North Frisian: teisdai
  • Saterland Frisian: Täisdai
  • West Frisian: tiisdei
• Old Saxon: *tiuwesdag
• Old High German: ziestag, ciesdac
  • Middle High German: zīestac, zīstac
    • Alemannic German: Ziischtig, Zischtig, Zischdi

      Italian Walser: tschischtag, zischtag, zischtog, zischtàg, zéischtag

      Swabian: Zaischdich, Zischtig, Zeischdig

    • German: Ziestag
• → Old Norse: týsdagr, *tísdagr (calque)
  • Icelandic: týsdagur (archaic)
  • Faroese: týsdagur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tysdag
  • Old Swedish: tīsdagher
    • Swedish: tisdag
  • Old Danish: tisdagh
    • Danish: tirsdag, tisdag
      • Norwegian Bokmål: tirsdag
  • Gutnish: teisdagar, teisdag
  • → Finnish: tiistai

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