Who put names to our days?

Question

I have this question...
Who put names to our weekly days like:Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday....
I know that many years ago they called each day,the 1st day,2nd day,3rd day,4th day..etc... but who put those names in each day?the roman empire?

Answer 1

How the Days of the Week Got Their Names


The days of the week were named after Norse gods and giant objects in the sky.

These names come to us originally from the Greeks and Romans, who named the days of the week after their gods.

The Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Britain hundreds of years ago, adopted this idea but substituted their own gods. The English language has inherited and changed those names a bit, but the ones we use today resemble those names.

Here's how:

Sunday: Sun's Day. The Sun gave people light and warmth every day. They decided to name the first (or last) day of the week after the Sun.
Monday: Moon's Day. The Moon was thought to be very important in the lives of people and their crops.
Tuesday: Tiw's Day. Tiw, or Tyr, was a Norse god known for his sense of justice.
Wednesday: Woden's Day. Woden, or Odin, was a Norse god who was one of the most powerful of them all.
Thursday: Thor's Day. Thor was a Norse god who wielded a giant hammer.
Friday: Frigg's Day. Frigg was a Norse god equal in power to Odin.
Saturday: Seater's Day or Saturn's Day. Saturn was a Roman god.

Answer 2

Interesting question - and no one is quite sure. In different languages, the days all have different names and those names come from different sources. But staying with the days you are most familiar with, there were some Norsemen out there when the names were being put together. Wodenstag (Woden's day) honors the Norse god Woden, Thor's day (Thusday) honors Thor, who tossed around the thunderbolts in the sky, and Freya'sday, or Friday, after the goddess Freya. Monday honors the moon (moonsday) and Tuesday honors another Norse god, Twis - equated with the Roman god of war, Mars.
So as far as our calendar goes, most of the names seem to have come from the ancient Norse peoples.
Saturday came from the Romans, who called it Saturn's day - Saturn was supposed to influence crops and agriculture.
Sunne's day (Sunday) honors a Germanic goddess.

Answer 3

Jimbo has the source and the right idea. That works for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday - but you have to get from "Mars" to "Tuesday", from "Jupiter" to "Wednesday", and then Thursday and Friday. This is where Norse mythology came into the English language. Angles and Saxons were both German peoples.

The Germanic languages substituted Germanic names for four of the Roman gods:

TYR God of war Son of Odin;
same as Tiu in Teutonic mythology - Tuesday.

ODIN Creator of world Equivalent to
Woden (Wodan, Wotan) in
Teutonic mythology - - Woden's day or Wednesday

THOR God of thunder Oldest son of Odin - -Thursday

FRIGG Goddess of sky; wife of Odin.
Freya Goddess of love and beauty - - Friday

Answer 4

It began in ancient Rome. I am not sure about the year but I do know that it was a Roman priest who started it.

Answer 5

Original spirit days?

Answer 6

Planetary names for the days are derived from the Sun, Moon, and five visible planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury), which in turn were named for Roman gods with the same names.
SUNDAY is named after Sunne, German goddess of the sun, which is where the word "sun" also derives its name. The Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years, and no century starts on a Sunday. The Jewish New Year never falls on a Sunday. Any month beginning on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th. In Thailand, the color associated with Sunday is red. In Ptolemaic Egyptian astrology, the seven planets—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon—had an hour of the day assigned to each in that order, but the planet which was "regent" during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. The Egyptian form of the seven-day week spread to Rome during the first and second century when the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day.

Germanic-speaking nations apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Romans.

MONDAY gets its name from the Moon. In Thailand, the color associated with Monday is yellow.

TUESDAY's name comes from Middle English Twisday, from Old English Tiwes daeg, named after the Nordic god Tyr, who was the equivalent of the Roman war god Mars. In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs "En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey"). For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday. In Thailand, the color associated with Tuesday is Scarlet.

WEDNESDAY's name comes from Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wēdnes daeg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden (Wodan) who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th century. According to the Hebrew Bible, Wednesday is the day when the Sun and Moon were created. In Romance languages it is derived from the name of the Roman god Mercury. An English language idiom for Wednesday is "hump day", a reference to making it through to the middle of the work week as getting "over the hump". According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury represents Wednesday

THURSDAY is named after the Norse god Thor (god of Thunder). In Thailand, the color associated with Thursday is orange, The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter represents Thursday with similar names in Latin-derived languages.. In English, this became "Thor's Day," since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thor in northern Europe.

FRIDAY is named after the Germanic deity Freyja, and comes from the Old English "frigedaeg", meaning the day of Frige, the Anglo-Saxon form of Frigg, a West Germanic translation of Latin dies Veneris, "day (of the planet) Venus.
Because Friday is connected with the planet Venus, this associates Friday with love, peace, and relaxation, as well as, with emotional intensity and quashed dreams. In some cultures, Friday is considered unlucky, especially Friday the 13th. This is particularly so in maritime circles; perhaps the most enduring sailing superstition is that it is unlucky to begin a voyage on a Friday. In one myth a Royal Navy ship (HMS Friday) was laid down on a Friday, launched on a Friday, captained by a Captain Friday, and was never heard of again. In Thailand, the color associated with Friday is blue.

SATURDAY was named no later than the second century for the planet (Saturn), the Roman god of agriculture. Saturday is the ONLY day of the week in which the English name comes from Roman mythology. The English names of all of the other days of the week come from Germanic mythology.
In Thailand, the color associated with Saturday is purple.
In Scandinavian countries, Saturday's name is derived from the old word "laugr" meaning "bath". thus "Lordag" equates to bath-day. This is due to the Viking usage of bathing on Saturdays. The modern Maori name for it, Rahoroi, means "washing-day".

Monday's Child is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day they were born:

Monday's child is fair of face.
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving.
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good in every way

(Note: Some modern versions change the last 3 words from the original ending--"and gay"--because of the modern associations with the word "gay," and sometimes the rhyme is sometimes changed to read "Wednesday's child will fear no foe" because being 'full of woe' is not a nice fate for any Wednesday born child.)

Answer 7

Who put names to our days?

Answer 8

the Vikings actually for example Thursday was to honor Thor so it was deemed Thorsday

Answer 9

Move on or be friends who love each other?

Answer 10

It jas to do with the planets