Friday

Etymology

From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.

Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).

Compare Japanese 金曜日.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: frīʹdā, frīʹdē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/, /-di/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/, /-ˌdi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdeɪ, -aɪdi
• Hyphenation: Fri‧day

Noun

Friday (plural Fridays)

2. The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim “Sabbath”; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
   • 2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2020-10-29:

     For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.

   • 2020 March 30, T.W. Lewis, Solid Ground: A Foundation For Winning In Work and In Life, T.W. Lewis, →ISBN:

     Their mindset is the grindset, and they love the grind. I used to have a sales manager who didn't think this way. On Fridays, he'd always say, “Happy Friday.” A lot of people feel that way, but I never liked that phrase because it […]

3. (colloquial, with possessive) The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

   Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

Adverb

Friday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Friday.

See also

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]

Anagrams

• fraidy

Alternative forms

• ffryday, Freday, fridai, Fryda, fryday, Vriday, vridei
• fridæi, Fridæig, friȝdæi (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English frīġedæġ. Forms with -e- are possibly after Old Norse freadagr, frjádagr, but may also represent the regular phonological development of frīġedæġ in some dialects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriːdɛi̯/, /ˈfreːdæi̯/

Proper noun

Friday

1. Friday

See also

• days of the week: weke-dayes (appendix): Sunnenday · Monday · Tewesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saterday ^[edit]