Background information

Historic details behind the naming of Monday: Monday, in many traditions, is named after the moon. As the Monday Wikipedia page explains: The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) mōnandæg and mōndæg (literally meaning "moon's day"), which has cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendag, mānendach (modern Dutch Maandag), Old High German mānetag (modern German Montag), and Old Norse mánadagr (Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur. Danish and Norwegian bokmål mandag).

For more information on the historical background on the Greek goddess Selene - personification of the moon see the Wikipedia page here.

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