Saturday, September 4, 2010

Saturday

  • Saturday (English)
  • Samstag vagy Sonnabend (German)
  • Zaterdag (Dutch)
  • lördag (Swedish)
In Scandinavian countries Saturday is called: Lördag or Laurdag. The name of this day spring from bath. Lördag is bath-day. This mean Vikings practised the bath (and wash) in Saturday.
Saturday has two names in german speaking country:

  • Samstag in Austria, Liechtenstein, german speaking part of Switzerland, southern and western Germany
  • Sonnabend in northern and western part of Germany
In hungarian language the word, szombat (Saturday) spring from hebrew "sabbath" or from slavic word, "sobota".

No comments:

Post a Comment