465: Thursday and Thunder Mar 17, 2017

It's Thursday, or in German, 'Donnerstag': a word made from the combination of 'Donner' which means 'thunder' and the word for 'day'. 'Thursday' itself comes from the Old English 'Thu(n)resdæg' meaning ‘day of thunder,’ named after Thunor; the word for thunder itself and a god who was the Saxon equivalent of the Norse, Thor. This all comes from the Roman tradition of naming weekdays after planets, which were in turn were named after gods. The late Latin, "Jovis dies" meaning "day of Jupiter" equates Thor (Thunor) with Jupiter, and is where Romantic days of the week, like French's 'Jeudi', originate.