I Like Sun But I LOVE Sunday

While enjoying the relax routine of the weekend, let's have a look at etymology of the word SUNDAY

The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "sun's day"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutchsonnendach (modern Dutch zondag), Old High German sunnun tag (modern German Sonntag), and Old Norse sunnudagr (Danish and Norwegiansøndag, and Swedish söndag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the Greekheméra helíou.^[3] The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin "day of the sun" as dydd Sul.

In most of the Indian Languages, the word for Sunday is Ravivar, Adityavar and Itwar in Urdu, with Aditya or Ravi being the Sanskrit names for the Sun. Ravivaar is first day cited in Nakshtra Jyotish. Nakshtra Jyotish provides logical reason for giving the name of each week day.

The first reference to Sunday is found in the First Apology of St. Justin Martyr (c. 150 AD). In a well-known passage of the Apology (Chapter 67), Justin describes the Christian custom of gathering for worship on Sunday. "And on the day called Sunday [τῇ τοῦ ῾Ηλίου λεγομένη ἡμέρᾳ], all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits . . .", he writes. Evidently Justin used the term Sunday because he was writing to a non-Christian, pagan audience. In Justin's time, Christians usually called Sunday the Lord's Day because they observed it as a weekly memorial of Jesus Christ's resurrection.^[4] The Roman Catholic Churchbelieves that the resurrection of Christ occurred on the day following seventh-day Sabbath, which is Sunday, and makes it a portal to timeless eternity that transcends the seven-day weekly cycle.

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