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Historic details behind the naming of Sunday: Sunday is named after the sun in many traditions going back to Hellenistic astrology.

In German this is Sonntag, and the Wikipedia page for Sunday lists these other alternatives: The English noun Sunday was derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "sun's day"). Other alternatives include: sunnandei, sunnundag, sonnendach, zondag, sunnun tag, Sonntag, sunnudagr, søndag, sunnudagur, söndag.

The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the ancient Greek Ἥλίου ημέρα" (Hēlíou hēméra) a connection to the Greek god Helios - the sun God - see the Wikipedia page here for more details.

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