Other forms: thursdays
Thursday is the day between Wednesday and Friday, the fourth day of the working week. On Thursday, every Thursday, Thursday morning.
It is always capitalised, and the preposition is on: on Thursday, not in Thursday. Like Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, it takes its name from a Norse god — Thor — where the Romance languages named theirs after planets. Note Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday; and that in British commerce Thursday is traditionally late-night shopping and, since 2010, the day general elections are held.
1nounthursdayThe day between Wednesday and Friday.
“The bins go out on Thursday and never before.”
thursday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Proto-West Germanic
*Þunras dag — day of the thunder god
Old Norse
þórsdagr
Old English
þursdæġ
Middle English
Thursday
English
Thursday
English, today
thursday
Built from
Thursday comes from Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þuresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”) literally “Thor's day”, or of gmq - origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West Germanic Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day. A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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