How it works
These fantasy weekday names are made up one at a time: a root, an ending and a kind of day, as in "Tideday, the washing day." Each kind of day is a way real languages have named their weekdays.
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Root, ending, kind of day
Press New weekday name. A week matches when its days share an ending: Tideday, Clayday. As a day name generator it gives one day a press; Print makes a sheet of seven, one week.
The kinds of day are real
Old Norse called Saturday the washing day. German, Icelandic and Finnish call Wednesday mid-week. Turkish has a market day and a day after market. The list under the tool has a line on each pattern.
Questions and answers
How did the days of the week get their names?
In a vast number of languages the seven days are named for the seven classical planets, English Wikipedia says. English Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday carry the names of Tiw, Woden, Thunor and Frig.
Which languages number their weekdays?
Portuguese and Mirandese use numbered weekdays. In Slavic languages some names go with numerals: Russian vtornik, Tuesday, with "the second" and pyatnitsa, Friday, with "the fifth".
Is this a day of the week name generator for real calendars?
No. It makes up new names for a story or a game. Only the third part is real: the ways people have named and counted weekdays, such as the market day or the mid-week day.
Did a week always have seven days?
No. Between the first and third centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced its eight-day market cycle with the seven-day week, English Wikipedia says.