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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English Wednesdai, Wodnesdei, from Old English wōdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”), from a Germanic (compare Proto-Germanic *Wōdanas dagaz) calque of Latin dies (“day”) Mercurii (“of Mercurii”) and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hemera, “day”) Ἕρμου (Hermou, “of Hermes”), via an association of the god Odin (Woden) with Mercury and Hermes.
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Wikipedia Wednesday (plural Wednesdays)
- The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.
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day of the week
- Abkhaz: ахаш (ab) (axaš)
- Afrikaans: Woensdag (af)
- Alabama: atótchìina, nihta atótchìina
- Albanian: e mërkurë (sq)
- Alutiiq: Pingayiin
- Amharic: ረቡዕ (rob)
- Amuzgo: mikluè
- Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: الأربعاء (ar) (al-ʾárbaʿāʾ) m, يوم الأربعاء (ar) (yawm al-ʾárbaʿāʾ) m
- Egyptian Arabic: الأربع (larrbaʿ) m
- Armenian: չորեքշաբթի (hy) (čorek'šabt'i)
- Old Armenian: չորեքշաբաթի (čʿorekʿšabatʿi)
- Azeri: çərşənbə (az)
- Bashkir: шаршамбы (şarşambı)
- Basque: asteazken
- Belarusian: серада (be) (seradá) f
- Bengali: বুধবার (bn) (budhbar)
- Blackfoot: ííkaitaistssinao'p
- Breton: Merc'her m, dimerc'her adverb
- Bulgarian: сряда (bg) (srjadá) f
- Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး (my) (bokdăhu:)
- Catalan: dimecres (ca) m
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵀⴰⴷ (ahad)
- Chechen: кхаара (qaara)
- Cherokee: ᏦᎢᏁ ᎢᎦ (tsoine iga)
- Chichewa: lachitatu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 星期三 (cmn) (xīngqīsān), 禮拜三 (cmn), 礼拜三 (cmn) (lǐbàisān), 周三 (cmn) (zhōusān)
- Chuvash: юнкун (yunkun)
- Corsican: màrcuri
- Czech: středa (cs) f
- Dakota: Aŋpetuiyamni
- Danish: onsdag (da) c
- Dutch: woensdag (nl) m
- Esperanto: merkredo (eo)
- Estonian: kolmapäev (et)
- Faroese: mikudagur (fo) m, ónsdagur (fo) m
- Fijian: Vukelulu (fj)
- Finnish: keskiviikko (fi)
- French: mercredi (fr) m
- Galician: mércores (gl) m
- Georgian: ოთხშაბათი (ka) (ot'xšabat'i)
- German: Mittwoch (de) m, (poetic) Wotanstag (de) m
- Gilbertese: Katenibong
- Greek: Τετάρτη (el) (Tetárti) f
- Greenlandic: Pinqasunngorneq (kl)
- Gujarati: બુધવાર (budhvār)
- Haitian Creole: mèkredi
- Hawaiian: Pōʻakolu
- Hebrew: יום רביעי (he) (yom revi’í) m
- Hindi: बुधवार (hi) (budhvār) m
- Hungarian: szerda (hu)
- Icelandic: miðvikudagur (is) m
- Ido: merkurdio (io)
- Indonesian: hari rabu
- Ingrian: sereta
- Interlingua: mercuridi (ia)
- Irish: Céadaoin (ga) f
- Italian: mercoledì (it) m
- Japanese: 水曜日 (ja) (すいようび, suiyōbi), 水曜 (ja) (すいよう, suiyō)
- Kannada: ಬುಧವಾರ (kn) (budhavār)
- Kashubian: strzoda f
- Kazakh: сәрсенбі (kk) (särsenbi)
- Khmer: ថ្ងៃពុធ (km) (tngai bpŭt)
- Kinyarwanda: Kwagatatu
- Kongo: Lumbu kia ntatu
- Korean: 수요일 (ko) (suyoil) (水曜日 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: چوارشهم, چوارشهمه
- Kyrgyz: шаршемби (ky) (şarşembi)
- Lao: ວັນພຸດ (lo) (wan-phut)
- Latin: diēs Mercuriī (la) m and f, dies Mercurii (la) m and f
- Latvian: trešdiena (lv)
- Lithuanian: trečiadienis (lt) m
- Livonian: kuolmõndpǟva
- Low German:
- German Low German: Middeweek m, Mödweek, Merrweek
- Dutch Low Saxon: woensdag (Gronings, Stellingwerfs, Sallans, Twents, Veluws), woonsdag (Twents, Veluws), wonsdag Template:qualifierDrents, Gronings
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- Luganda: Lwakusatu
- Luxembourgish: Mëttwoch (lb) m
- Macedonian: среда (mk) (sréda) f
- Malay:
- Rumi: Rabu (ms), Arbaa (ms)
- Jawi: رابو (ms), اربع (ms)
- Maltese: l-Erbgħa (mt)
- Maori: Wenerei, Rātoru, Rāapa
- Mongolian: лхагва (mn) (lhagva)
- Navajo: Tágíjį́ Ndaʼanish
- Neapolitan: miercurì
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: onsdag (no) m
- Nynorsk: onsdag (nn) m
- Occitan: dimècres (oc)
- Ojibwe: aabitoose
- Old English: wōdnesdæġ (ang) m
- Old Norse: óðinsdagr m
- Old Turkic: törtünç
- Ossetian:
- Digor: æртиккæг (ærtikkæg)
- Iron: æртыццæг (ærtyccæg)
- Papiamentu: diarason
- Persian: چهارشنبه (fa) (čahâr-šanbe)
- Polish: środa (pl) f
- Portuguese: quarta-feira (pt) f
- Quechua: mirkulis (qu)
- Romani: tetradyi
- Romanian: miercuri (ro) f
- Russian: среда (ru) (sredá) f
- Sami:
- Northern: gaskavahkku
- Samoan: Aso Lulu (sm)
- Scots: Wadensday
- Scottish Gaelic: Diciadain (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: среда (sh) f, сриједа (sh) f
- Roman: sreda (sh) f, srijeda (sh) f
- Shona: Chitatu (sn)
- Sinhalese: බදාදා (si) (badādā)
- Skolt Sami: seärad
- Slovak: streda (sk) f
- Slovene: sréda (sl) f
- Somali: Arbaca
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: srjoda f
- Upper Sorbian: srjeda (hsb) f
- Sotho: Laboraro
- Spanish: miércoles (es) m
- Sundanese: rebo
- Swahili: jumatano (sw)
- Swedish: onsdag (sv) c
- Tagalog: Miyerkules (tl), miyerkules (tl)
- Tahitian: Mahana toru
- Tajik: чоршанбе (tg) (corşanbe), чаҳоршанбе (tg) (čahoršanbe)
- Tamil: புதன் (ta) (putaṉ)
- Taos: míalkulisi
- Tarantino: mercrudìe
- Tatar: чәршәмбе (tt) (çärşämbe)
- Telugu: బుధవారము (te) (budhavāramu)
- Thai: วันพุธ (th) (wan phōōt)
- Tok Pisin: trinde (tpi)
- Tongan: Pulelulu (to)
- Tswana: laboraro (tn)
- Turkish: çarşamba (tr)
- Turkmen: çarşenbe (tk), hoşgün (tk)
- Ukrainian: середа (uk) (seredá) f
- Urdu: بدھ (ur) (budh)
- Uzbek: chorshanba (uz)
- Venetian: mèrcore m
- Vietnamese: thứ tư (vi)
- Volapük: vedel (vo), (older term) folüdel (vo), (older term) vesdel (vo)
- Votic: kõlmõzpäivä
- Welsh: dydd Mercher (cy)
- West Frisian: woansdei (fy)
- Wolof: Àllarba
- Xhosa: ulwesithathu (xh)
- Yiddish: מיטוואָך (yi) (mitvokh) m
- Yup'ik: Pingayirin
- Zulu: uLwesithathu (zu)
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Wednesday (not comparable)
- on Wednesday
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