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[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 9 points 11 months ago

The Finnish word looks oddly germanic(?) Was it affected by Swedish?

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

Borrowed from Old Swedish þōrsdagher, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”).

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago

Huh interesting, thanks!

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

When in doubt, always guess it’s a Swedish loanword. You’ll be right surprisingly often.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

It's pretty literally just T(h)or's day. But how they turned Freya's day into perjantai is pretty baffling.

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