Editing Monday (section)

==Names==
{{further|Names of the days of the week}}
[[File:Máni and Sól by Lorenz Frølich.jpg|thumb|A depiction of [[Máni]], the personified moon, and his sister [[Sól (Sun)|Sól]], the personified sun, from [[Norse mythology]] (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]]]]
The names of the day of the week were coined in the [[Roman Empire|Roman era]], in [[Greek language|Greek]] and Latin, in the case of Monday as
ἡμέρᾱ [[Selene|Σελήνης]], ''diēs Lūnae'' "day of the Moon".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/monday|title=monday|website=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref>

Many languages use either terms directly derived from these names or loan translations based on them.
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 language|Dutch]] ''Maandag''), [[Old High German]] ''mānetag'' (modern [[German language|German]] ''Montag''), and [[Old Norse]] ''mánadagr'' ([[Swedish language|Swedish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian nynorsk]] ''måndag'', [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] ''mánudagur''. [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian bokmål]] ''mandag''). The Germanic term is a [[Interpretatio graeca|Germanic interpretation]] of [[Latin]] ''lunae dies'' ("day of the moon").<ref name=BARNHART485>Barnhart (1995:485).</ref>
[[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Korean language|Korean]] share the same ancient [[Written Chinese|Chinese words]] '月曜日' ([[Hiragana]]:げつようび, [[Transliteration|translit.]] ''getsuyо̄bi'', [[Hangeul]]:월요일) for Monday which means "day of the moon".
In many [[Indo-Aryan languages]], the word for Monday is ''Somavāra'' or ''Chandravāra'',  [[Sanskrit]] loan-translations of "Monday".<ref>{{cite web |url= https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/contextualize.pl?p.4.soas.773773 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20121215020336/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/contextualize.pl?p.4.soas.773773 |url-status= dead |archive-date = 15 December 2012 |title= sōmavāra 13610|access-date= 21 February 2010 |last= Turner |author-link = Ralph Lilley Turner |year = 1962 |work= A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London: Oxford University Press |publisher= Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago |page= 784 |quote= sōmavāra 13610 sōmavāra masculine 'Monday' inscription [sṓma the plant, vāra 2 meaning day]}}</ref>

In some cases, the "ecclesiastical" names are used, a tradition of numbering the days of the week to avoid the pagan connotation of the planetary or deities’ names, and to keep with the biblical name, in which Monday is the "second day" (Hebrew יום שני, Greek Δευτέρα ἡμέρα (''Deutéra hēméra''), Latin ''feria secunda, Arabic الأثنين'').
In many [[Slavic languages]] the name of the day translates to "after Sunday/holiday". [[Russian language|Russian]] ''понедельник'' (''ponyedyelnik'') literally translated, Monday means "next to the week", по "next to" or "on" недельник "(the) week" [[Croatian language|Croatian]] and [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] ''ponedjeljak'', [[Serbian language|Serbian]] ''понедељак'' (''ponedeljak''), [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] ''понеділок'' (''ponedilok''), [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] ''понеделник'' (''ponedelnik''), [[Polish language|Polish]] ''poniedziałek'', [[Czech language|Czech]] ''pondělí'', [[Slovak language|Slovak]] ''pondelok'', [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]] ''ponedeljek''. In Turkish it is called ''pazartesi'', which also means "after Sunday".