köken: From Middle High German mittewoche, from Old High German mittawehha (literally “middle of the week”), calqued on Ecclesiastical Latin media hebdomas (whence Dalmatian misedma). Equivalent to Mitte (“mid, middle”) + Woche (“week”), becoming a masculine in Early Modern German after the other weekdays. Compare Middle Low German middewēke, English midweek. Originally meaning the middle between Sunday…
köken: From Latin quartus. Doublet of cuarta. The sense of room is after a common division of houses (4 or 5 sections). As a unit of English measure, calque of English quart. Compare English quarter.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic четвьртъ (četvĭrtŭ), from Proto-Slavic *četvьrtъ (“fourth”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ketwirtas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥tós.
köken: Cognates include Turkish dördüncü, Tatar дүртенче (dürtençe), Kazakh төртінші (törtınşı), Kyrgyz төртүнчү (törtüncü), Turkmen dördünji and Azerbaijani dördüncü.
köken: From Latin quartus (“fourth”). As a unit of dry measure, in reference to its making up one-fourth of the alqueire or Portuguese bushel. Cognate with Spanish cuarterón.
köken: Inherited from Hellenistic Koine Greek Τετάρτη (Tetártē) from τέταρτος (tétartos, “fourth”) with ellipsis of the feminine noun ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”): "the fourth day after Saturday".
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥tHos Proto-Balto-Slavic *ketwirtas Proto-Slavic *četvьrtъ Old Polish cztwarty Polish czwarty Inherited from Old Polish cztwarty.
Wednesday (day of the week; the third day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)
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köken: keski- (“mid-, middle”) + viikko (“week”), a calque either of Middle Low German middewēke (compare modern German Mittwoch), or of a seemingly unattested Old Swedish word (compare Old Norse miðvikudagr (literally “mid-week day”)). Note that Wednesday was the middle of the seven-day week when Sunday was still the first day of the week in Finland prior to 1973.
From thứ (“-th”) + tư (“four”). In the sense of “fourth”, sometimes bốn is used instead of tư. As a name of weekday, calque of Portuguese quarta-feira (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”).