Other forms: mondays
Monday is the first day of the school week, right after the weekend. Monday morning, see you Monday, hate Mondays.
It has the worst reputation of any weekday and some of it is earned: sleeping late at the weekend shifts the body clock, so Monday morning feels like jet lag. Monday morning quarterback is the American phrase for somebody wise after the event. Note that the day is named after the moon.
1nounmondayThe day between Sunday and Tuesday.
“I start my new job on Monday, and I'm a bit nervous.”
monday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Latin
diēs Lūnae
Proto-West Germanic
*mānini dag
Old English
mōnandæġ — day of the moon
Middle English
Monday
English
Monday
English, today
monday
Monday comes from Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic mānini dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. See also Japanese 月曜日 (“Moon's day”). 2 Compare Scots Monanday (“Monday”), yol Mondei (“Monday”), stq Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), gsw meintog, miantag, méntag, mìntàg, mäntag, Määntig (“Monday”), bar Monda, Mondåg, montach, monti (“Monday”), cim matak, menta, méentag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag (“Monday”), lb Méindeg (“Monday”), mhn ma'ta (“Monday”), pdc Mundaag, Muundaag (“Monday”), wym möntaog (“Monday”), vls moandag (“Monday”), Yiddish מאָנטיק (“Monday”), Danish -, Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Faroese mánadagur (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk -, Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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