mäntag

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Määntig, meintog, méntag, miantag, mìntàg

Etymology

From Swiss Old High German mānintag, from Proto-Germanic *mēniniz dagaz (literally “day of the moon”), calque of Latin diēs Lūnae. Cognate with Dutch maandag, English Monday, German Montag, Icelandic mánudagur, Swedish måndag.

Noun

mäntag m

(Formazza) Monday

See also

(days of the week) tag der wucha; mäntag, zischtag, méttwucha, dontschtag, frittag, samstag, sunntag ^{(Category: gsw:Days of the week)} – Formazza dialect

See also: Carcoforo, Gressoney, Issime, Rimella and Campello Monti

References

“mäntag” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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