Monday

noun
/ˈmʌn.deɪ/

Etymology

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”). Cognates Compare Scots Monanday (“Monday”), Yola Mondei (“Monday”), Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), Alemannic German meintog, miantag, méntag, mìntàg, mäntag, Määntig (“Monday”), Bavarian Monda, Mondåg, montach, monti (“Monday”), Cimbrian matak, menta, méentag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag (“Monday”), Luxembourgish Méindeg (“Monday”), Mòcheno ma'ta (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag, Muundaag (“Monday”), Vilamovian möntaog (“Monday”), West Flemish moandag (“Monday”), Yiddish מאָנטיק (montik, “Monday”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Faroese mánadagur (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).

  1. derived from diēs Lūnae
  2. inherited from *mānini dag
  3. inherited from mōnandæġ
  4. inherited from Monday

Definitions

  1. The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in…

    The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

    • Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, […] would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.
    • An LMPD Board Notice of Hearing states part of Cosgrove’s hearings took place in November. The second half of his hearing is set to begin Monday and end Wednesday.
  2. On Monday.

    • We've worked out the schedule for Easter week: We'll be shopping Monday […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Monday. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01monday02sunday03sabbath04saturday05friday

A definitional loop anchored at monday. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at monday

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA