day

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
2. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
3. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
4. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
5. (informal) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
6. A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
7. The rotational period of a planet.
8. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
9. An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
10. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
11. A period of contention of a day or less.

Verb

To spend a day (in a place).

Teenoorgestelde van

night, daytime

Sinonieme

daytime

daylight

sun

🌞

time

⌚

date

📅

month

occasion

noon

🕛

hour of birth

twenty-four hours

calendar day

epoch

sidereal day

period

24-hour interval

mean solar day

twenty-four hour period

solar day

day before yesterday

instant

hour

daily

one day

by day

24 hours

night

🌃

morning

today

single time

age

term

season

24-hour period

job

day by day

heaven

good luck

rather

quite

God

Friday

appointment

opportunity

opening

experience

one

event

clocking

now

era

Vertalings

jour

día

giorno

Tag

dia

dag

journée

dia

dies

μέρα

ημέρα

gün

يوم

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/deɪ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: day

Geërf van Old English: dæġ

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Dai

Verwante met Fries: dei

Verwante met Nederlands: dag

Verwante met Switserse Duits: Däi

Verwante met Duits: Tag

Verwante met Sweeds: -

Verwante met Noors: -

Verwante met Deens: dag

Verwante met Yslands: dagur

Verwante met Goties: 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃

Verwante met Albanees: djeg

Verwante met Litaus: degti

Verwante met Tokharian A: tsäk-

Verwante met Russies: жечь

Verwante met Sanskrit: दाह

Verwante met Latyn: foveō

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Sinne

Tomorrow is another day .

From that day on , it was the desert that would be important .

The next day , the boy returned to the well , hoping to see the girl .

He supposedly was working that day .

That day , the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display .

The driver died the following day , and the stoker a few days after that .