Sunday
Betekenis
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- The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
- (informal) A newspaper published on Sunday.
- (informal) A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
- (informal) Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈsʌn.deɪ/
Etymologie
From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ (“day of the sun”), from sunne (“sun”), + dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, as a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E.. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag.
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