Other forms: fridays
Friday is the last working day — the weekend starts tonight. Friday night, by Friday, thank God it's Friday.
It carries a mood no other weekday has, and the working world is arranged around it: deadlines land on it, bad news is released on it, and Friday afternoon is when least gets done. Good Friday and Black Friday are both fixed dates in their way. Note that the day is named after Frigg, a Norse goddess.
1nounfridayThe day between Thursday and Saturday.
“We're going out for dinner on Friday night to celebrate the end of the week.”
friday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Latin
diēs Veneris
Proto-West Germanic
*Frījā dag
Old English
frīġedæġ
Middle English
Friday
English
Friday
English, today
friday
Built from
Friday comes from Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ 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. See also friend. 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 (“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)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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