• Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Are these representing days of the week or ordinal numbers? These are all cognates in Spanish but I don’t see the connection

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          2 months ago

          Because catholicism, the roman language names came from pagan gods, and the Portuguese wanted to distance from that. Sunday and Saturday keep their romance name because it had catholic/Jewish religious origin already.