Where do the names of the days of the week come from?

who can win?
occupied vs busy
reckon vs [think-contemplate-musing-speculate]
difference vs various
hulking vs enormous
mammoth vs large
Elated vs delighted
Melancholy vs miserable
Owing2 vs because
There4 vs so
inspite vs although
oughtta vs had better

kotoz

Well done O’kotoz
Well Well Well

kotoz

Good. Congratulations.

nkh

Ty Kindly O’Nkh.453

kotoz

My congratulations! Tomorrow is Tuesday, the day, named after the Gog of war.
Please, check our motto for this week. SKIKDA suggested the winner to be a shark!
Sweet dreams.

nataanna

I was being lacking enthusiasm

kotoz

Je manquais d’enthousiasme

kotoz

Since I am from Peru, a latin country, I knew about names of the days and their origin.
Now I know that there is a relation between the English and Spanish names of the days too.
Thank you very much

KarloVerde

Thank you, Gill. It is another interesting lesson

Vitalii UA

Ur Method is pretty east Mrs/Gill
Ty 4 All ur precious time

kotoz

nice lesson

soran81

Hi respectable Engvid’s director, could you add video’s subtitle, please? because without subtitle is hard to understand the whole lesson :( ..

idoo

Check back now, the subtitles have been added!

engVid Moderator

Great lesson as usual.
Thanks a lot Gill.

Riccardo S

Friday is the best!!
Please teach us about literature!
more and more, tnx

Zahra

Friday is yours :)

amirrezaee

Friday is for all of us , Iranians!

Soei

I wrote it because it’s the only female’s name in the week ;) but actually yes it’s a special day for all of us

Zahra

You are so clever !

Soei

Thanks a lot Gill. I really appreciate your real British ascent.

svetlyo

Did not watch the video before my first test, just watch and re-answer got 9point…..awesome

hollarpac

Where is Ronnie she left this web

hazem gamal

In Moldavian (Roumanian) the weekdays have such names: Luni /Lun’/- Monday from Luna- Moon, Month; Marti /Marts’/- Tuesday; Miercuri /M’erkur’/- Wednesday; Joy/Zhoi/ -Thursday; Vineri /Viner’/- Friday. In Russian such days like Vtornik (Tuesday), Chetverg (Thursday) and Pyathitsa (Friday) are named after their order numbers, but Voskresenie (Sunday) is named after Resurrection (of Christ),Ponedelnik (Monday)means the day after Sunday. Sreda (Wednesday)has the word Middle (Seredina) in its root.

Roman06

It’s fun lesson for me …thank you Gill …I love it …Have a nice day

amirrezaee

Hi everone it seems very dificult to hunderstand the days of the week,but it is very histrical materials.

Muhammad Abbas

A difficult but interesting lesson :) I’ve scored 7/10

Adamos32

can’t understand any question

maam305

Very interesting lesson! Sunday is called Domenica in Italian, after the coming of Christianity. Indeed “dies Solis” (Sun’s day) has been changed in “dies dominica” (Lord’s day). Instead Saturday is called Sabato from Jewish word “shabbāt” (day of rest), a little bit unexpectedly. This root is in all the romance languages.

Diego

…and don’t forget to say that in Italy, Monday is the FIRST day of the week!
Ciao

byte

and in the United Kingdom

Faisal

thnks for thıs ınterestıng lesson.

Bilgehankara87

I got 10 out of 10 Interesting !

ebtehaj

I have scored only 6/10.
Shame on me.

PhoenixRed

hi gill, i think that you’ve mispronounced the word “lune” in french. haven’t she french native speakers?

SKIKDA

just to correct ‘hasn’t she’ i have to concentrate next time.

SKIKDA

Great job, Gill. Thanks a lot.

Júlio César L Sousa

nice teacher

leon11955

good class

leon11955

Thanks Gill!!Interesting lesson ;)

knopfler86

Interesting lesson my dear teacher . Thank you for a lot of jobs that you do to teach us so useful and interesting topics. Your calmness in teaching causes not forgetting happen for your students !

Soei

It’s nice..a quiz after learning a lesson..it really exciting and fastens the process of learning… Really a very good idea…and Gill you Sweet

Anwesh banik

thnx a lot fr this infos

bakhada

why the turn of ronnie is skipped ? is she sick ? is she busy ?

SKIKDA

Thanks Gill ! ??

Kuzel

As on the typical English phrase or sentence, “Oh my god!” which would mean “surprise”, I am in doubt with the idea of “token female” because I haven’t listened to this question before, it was my main concern in the questionary but anyhow, this lesson has been funny and amused, we have learnt this curious topic of the days of the week, its etymology, it was very interesting. Thanks a lot, teacher Gill, a very good explanation.

angardiobel

Hi Gill, why is the Sunday the first day in Britian. In my language and culture is the first day the Monday. In Slovak language (and in all slavic languages) is the Thursday called the fourthday (4.day) and Friday the fifth day (5.day). It means, we have counted the days form Monday to Sunday for thousands years.

adrijana

Tnx very helpful

Yasin Sorosh

Thank you, Gill.i don’t know those things before. i just knew we have 7 days a week and i didn’t know why. Now, i got it!

winniehoang

Oh, I know why Days of week are named like that just now. Thank for Gill. See you later

quynhcoi

Thanks Gil, this is undoubtedly a better way to memorize (and understand) the names of the days in English than….using Solomon Grundy’s doggerel!

Canardo

thanks gill for this good lesson

youssef.i

thanks

montreal

Saturday = Samedi (French) . It is coming from sabbat or Shabbat which is the seventh day of the week. The Shabbat is the Judaism’s day of rest.

mike4ever75

That was a fantastic English lesson, Gill. Your the best:)

Adam

Hi Gill. I have a special request for you! Could you do a topic about Compound words? Thanks, Adam.

Adam

Thank you gill. It was really fantastic lesson.
In japan, all days of the week are named after planets.
Sunday sun, Monday moon, Tuesday mars, Wednesday mercury, Thursday Jupiter, Friday Venus, Saturday Saturn. I don’t know why, but it might be similar reason to English and Southern Europe.

juneriver

Hello, everyone! Thank you, Gill! It was fascinating as well as instructive. But my question is about ‘token female’… Can somebody explain to me what it means?
And yeah… Ivanka… I’m still laughing..

Max Druck

Hi Gill
Thank you so much.This lesson was Great lesson for me.

Muad Abdiaziz

It was so informative.

Taqveem Ul Haq

Thanks Gill, this lesson was great..

marcos alexandre

Thank you teacher. Beautiful lession <3

Xuan Dieu

Thanks Gill, very interesting lesson.

Ebtesam87

thank you Gill

lemarvillois

Thank you Gill. Nice lesson about this subject

Rafa

great lesson

johnaisteph

I really love your classes Gill…thanks a lot!!

Kemii Athon

Hello Gill. Thanks for this lesson, it was very inetresting.

Aleachi

Tanks prof.

gustavocalmoon

Great lesson , Mrs Gill! Thank you so much!

RafaelCorrea77

Thanks Mrs. Gill!

Carol.otero

Thank you.

pavanut2

Hello Gill .
Thank you for this lesson .
God of gods in the Roman mythology is Jupiter . Jove is the latin name of Jupiter. So Jeudi in french is the. Day of Jupiter . In French each day is for a god and a Planet except for Dimanche which has replaced “soles dei” ( sun’s day) after Jesus Christ came .
Just a kind thought for Venus the only woman among a men’s world . Why god is not a woman and men tokens ?
See you

tsamp

An useful lesson, Many thanks, Gill.

Gritman

Thanks a lot, Gill. Great lesson, really.

Rozenn

Interesting topic. Good lesson teacher!

CART

I got 9 correct out of 10!

Thank you for the option “Ivanka” (Q8) )))))

Alex.Yak

You got 9 correct out of 10.
:)

wangwa

Thank you Gill.

Raily

Dear Gill,

Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on this amazing lesson. I really appreciate your historic videos, and I hope you make many others. It is so interesting to know the origins of the words because we can understand better our culture and how it is linked with other cultures. That’s fantastic!!

Well, I would like to use this opportunity to make a question (it is a completely different topic). Which is the correct sentence: “My brother and I” or “My brother and me”? Or both of them are correct? Could I say “Me and my brother”?

Thank you in advance. I regard you a brilliant teacher!

Until next time!

Eduardo França

thanx so much Gill

jakani

very exciting
thanks

m.elfwal

I found thse topic very interesting, cause on spanish, I dont kow how that happend but sounds very similar, some days. like mars (martes), friday-venus (Viernes), saturn day, (Sabado) lol iI dont know if the translations were just similar words on how it sounds or had some reason

enrique01

hi Gill, this lesson is very interesting. Thank you

tero

very good lesson I enjoyed it. thank you very much, I learned a lot

horseslov

I love this lesson….
thank you teacher Gill! that was a very useful and very informative lesson about the derivative names of the days in the week!
it was a very interesting lesson for me….
We would be waiting for one more lesson as such by Engvid group.
thank you again for the video teacher! :D

Thanu

Thank you Gill!

Issamov2

Great Job!!Thanks a lot:)

demartinez

Gill,thank u! Very interesting lesson! :)

Tanay85

thank you gill.very interesting

mikaramirez

Very interesting lesson, thank you very much Gill!

KrisLis

Extremely interesting lesson,Gill. Thanks a lot.

Sonia1234

Thank you, Gill!!

JJulian

excellent, ı like ıt

coskun guzel

awesome Gill… tks

andrecoletti

Thank you so much T.Gill for such a wonderful lesson :)

Ali Abobakr

You got 9 correct out of 10.
I love you lovely Gill

meryem

Thanks!

rmalfatti

Thanks! you explain very well!

ivaneide

Thanks Gill very interesting!

Alex-1956

Thx Gill, fantastic lesson!!!

SherlyYT

8/10, is well. I didn’t read one question correctly.

caonez

Good morning Professor Jill,
I came across your lecture regarding the names of the days of the week, the names of the months of the year; and the names of the planets while watching videos on YouTube.
I am in awe at the findings in your teachings and would like your permission to publish these lessons in a book that I will be publishing soon, as this will profoundly impact people’s knowledge. There are many more videos on this subject that popped up when I went into your videos; so in order to give you full credit; I would like your written permission to use it, your photograph with the lecture to give you full credit, and a little of your educational background to prove that you are a professional teacher. I will contribute to the Invid.com program as soon as the revenue for my book comes in; but if you disagree to the publication of your teachings; I understand and thank you for the knowledge that I have acquired about the ancient gods.
I look forward to your response and if you prefer to have a more private conversation, please send me your personal email and I will respond.

astablaze

great lesson

sevigr

Interesting.

gpm777

Hi, Gill! I found EngVid 2 months ago and could not stop binge-watching videos here since. But I have avoided to watch your videos until recently because they seemed too difficult for me. Then I checked this video and was surprised how easy it was for me to listen and understand counting that I don’t know the topic at all. I can’t wait to check the rest of your vids!

I also have a kind of suggestion for you or other Engvid teachers. Could you please make a video about history and etymology of English names, surnames and place names? This topic is so fascinating <3

FrozenSky

Thanks!

Helena Bat

9/10 great!!! I am very happy .. I am learning a lot with your videos.. Thanks Gill :D

Mercedes Blanquer

Got 9 out of 10, I made a mistake on the seventh one, but regardless of that, the lesson is exquisite!

Essali

Thanks Gill, this lesson was Great.

Colombia@2020

Thank you Ms.Gill
Even in Sinhala the days of the week name according to the planets
Sunday – sun
Monday – moon
Tuesday – mars
Wednesday – mercury
Tuesday – jupiter
Friday – venus
Saturday – saturn

Tuesday is slightly different.
But,how could be this possible? I’m curious.