If there was a change from 7 days in a week to 8 what name should the extra day have ?

@Elessar Bc!

@Elessar Clever :)

@LvChris It's in fact Lunedì for us too

@Nimbus Any idea from where the prefixes "Tue-", "Wed-", "Thu-" and "Fri-" came out from? Old English names for those planets or something else?

@Elessar No idea :)

@Elessar German.

Tuesday comes from Tiw/Tyr, Wednesday from Woden/Odin, Thursday from Norse Thor, Friday from German goddess Frigg (possibly cognate with Norse Freia).

In Norwegian they are: mandag (moon day), tirsdag (Tyr's day), onsdag (Odin's day), torsdag (Thor's day), fredag (Freia's day).

@ninalanyon Ah, makes sense. Thank you!

So ours are after Roman gods; I wonder why planets got named after Roman deities all over the world, while weekdays vary by linguistic region

@Elessar If we stick with the general scheme of English day names then we should find another Norse or Germanic god not another planet. Only Monday and Sunday are not names of gods in the English day names. Perhaps Idun, the guardian of the apples that give the gods eternal life, so Idunsdag.

@Elessar Probably for the same reason that we are all writing here in English: imperial power.

@ninalanyon I'll continue to prefer Uranodì 😏