Friday
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of frīġe and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.
Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).
Compare Japanese 金曜日.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: frīʹdā, frīʹdē, IPA(key): /ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/, /-di/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/, /-ˌdi/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪdeɪ, -aɪdi
- Hyphenation: Fri‧day
Noun
[edit]Friday (plural Fridays)
- The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim “Sabbath”; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
- (colloquial, with possessive) The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.
- Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.
Synonyms
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[edit]- Black Friday
- Bloody Friday
- casual Friday
- dress-down Friday
- expiration Friday
- First Friday
- gal Friday
- girl Friday
- Girl Friday
- Golden Friday
- Good Friday
- Great and Holy Friday
- Great Friday
- guy Friday
- Hollywood Black Friday
- Holy Friday
- Long Friday
- man Friday
- Man Friday
- Marlboro Friday
- next sitting Friday
- person Friday
- Red Friday
- thank God it's Friday
- thank goodness it's Friday
- virtual Friday
Derived terms
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References
[edit]friday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Week-day names on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adverb
[edit]Friday (not comparable)
Translations
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See also
[edit]- (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ffryday, Freday, fridai, Fryda, fryday, Vriday, vridei
- fridæi, Fridæig, friȝdæi (Early Middle English)
Etymology
[edit]From Old English frīġedæġ. Forms with -e- are possibly after Old Norse freadagr, frjádagr, but may also represent the regular phonological development of frīġedæġ in some dialects.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Friday
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “frī-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
See also
[edit]- (days of the week) weke-dayes; Sunnenday, Monday, Tewesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saterday (Category: enm:Days of the week)
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰegʷʰ-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preyH-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/aɪdeɪ
- Rhymes:English/aɪdeɪ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/aɪdi
- Rhymes:English/aɪdi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English adverbs
- English uncomparable adverbs
- American English
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- en:Days of the week
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English proper nouns
- enm:Days of the week