ostegun
Appearance
Basque
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The second element is egun (“day”). The first element could be from an element ortzi (“sky”), as a calque of the Latin and as in numerous other Basque words, or it could be a regular phonetic development of bost (“five”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]ostegun ?
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- days of the week: asteko egunak (appendix): astelehen · astearte · asteazken · ostegun · ostiral · larunbat · igande [edit]
Derived terms
[edit]- ostegunero (“every Thursday”)
References
[edit]- R. L. Trask (2008), “ostegun”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 317