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=== Origin of ''Friday'' ===
The English weekday name ''[[Friday]]'' comes from Old English ''Frīġedæġ'', meaning 'day of Frig'. It is cognate with Old Frisian ''Frīadei'' (≈ ''Fri(g)endei''), [[Middle Dutch]] ''Vridach'' (≈ ''Vriendach''), [[Middle Low German]] ''Vrīdach'' (≈ ''Vrīgedach''), and [[Old High German]] ''Frîatac''. The Old Norse ''Frjádagr'' was borrowed from a West Germanic language. All of these terms derive from Late Proto-Germanic *''Frijjōdag'' ('Day of Frijjō'), a [[calque]] of Latin ''Veneris dies'' ('Day of [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]]'; cf. modern Italian ''venerdì'', French ''vendredi'', Spanish ''viernes'').{{sfnp|Simek|2007|pp=93–94}}<ref name=":0">[[Oxford English Dictionary Online]], s.v. ''Friday, n. and adv.''</ref>

The Germanic goddess' name has substituted for the Roman name of a comparable deity, a practice known as ''[[interpretatio germanica]]''. Although the Old English theonym ''Frīg'' is only found in the name of the weekday, it is also attested as a common noun in ''frīg'' ('love, affections [plural], embraces [in poetry]'). The Old Norse weekday ''Freyjudagr'', a rare synonym of ''Frjádagr'', saw the replacement of the first element with the genitive of ''Freyja''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>attested in the [[Breta sögur]]: Johan Fritzner: ''Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. Omarbeidet, forøget og forbedret udgave''. Volume 1 (1886) page 486 ([https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=TewYAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA486&hl=en_GB online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505011629/https://books.google.com/books?id=TewYAAAAYAAJ&pg=486 |date=5 May 2023 }} at Google Books).</ref>