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Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old records, scribes often used symbols to indicate the days of the week instead of writing the entire name. These symbols are not abbreviations and each has other uses, such as representing metals and planets (hence, their association with the days of the week). The symbols, which in this case are taken from Bavaria around 1715, are: | Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old records, scribes often used symbols to indicate the days of the week instead of writing the entire name. These symbols are not abbreviations and each has other uses, such as representing metals and planets (hence, their association with the days of the week). The symbols, which in this case are taken from Bavaria around 1715, are: | ||
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So, you might read [[]] d 29ten Oktober, which means ‘Sonntag, den 29. Oktober.’ | So, you might read [[]] d 29ten Oktober, which means ‘Sonntag, den 29. Oktober.’ | ||
<br>Click here for a | <br>Click here for a [http://www.dglenn.org/defs/daysymbols.html detailed explanation with illustrations ]and here for [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet |computer-generated illustrations ]]of these weekday symbols or here for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names origin of the names of the week days]. | ||