Assyrian weekday names
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RIPPER QUESTION! theres not one shred of info on the net either, nothing!
our weekdays are actually SHABA and not SHEEBA, they appear as SHABA on the church calenders aswell so its troshaba tloshaba arposhaba etc.like i know wot the days mean but i cant remember how they got their names cos each day has its own story, i gota dig up my old assyrian books
yeh, sunday is the first day hence KHA as the prefix
sheeba comes from the word 'shawoo'a' which means week. these words were used in aramaic too, compound words mainly. when we say 'shaptit atya' its wrong, we should be saying 'shawoo'a d'atya' but weve ruined the language
wot i mean is this:
khamshoshaba = khamish (5) o (of/the/that) sheeba (week) so on and so forth lol
anywayssss...SHAPTA simply comes from the word SHABITH or m'shabith which obviously means the sabbath, yes i know we dont have the sabbath eena i dont have all the answers, well i can explain it but its long
roota is actually pronouce e'roota, in assyrian its written with an EIN and not RESH at the start.but i cnt remember wot it means of where it came from. u can see it in the pic below how friday is written
our weekdays are actually SHABA and not SHEEBA, they appear as SHABA on the church calenders aswell so its troshaba tloshaba arposhaba etc.like i know wot the days mean but i cant remember how they got their names cos each day has its own story, i gota dig up my old assyrian books
yeh, sunday is the first day hence KHA as the prefix
sheeba comes from the word 'shawoo'a' which means week. these words were used in aramaic too, compound words mainly. when we say 'shaptit atya' its wrong, we should be saying 'shawoo'a d'atya' but weve ruined the language
wot i mean is this:
khamshoshaba = khamish (5) o (of/the/that) sheeba (week) so on and so forth lol
anywayssss...SHAPTA simply comes from the word SHABITH or m'shabith which obviously means the sabbath, yes i know we dont have the sabbath eena i dont have all the answers, well i can explain it but its long
roota is actually pronouce e'roota, in assyrian its written with an EIN and not RESH at the start.but i cnt remember wot it means of where it came from. u can see it in the pic below how friday is written
Thinking about it, likely that it was a common Semitic language/culture influence, where Saturday was seen as the resting day (from Judaism) and the week began the day after. If you notice Arabic has the same naming pattern in their weekdays (sunday sounds like 'one', monday sounds like 'two', etc'). Hebrew numbers its weeks starting w/ sunday too. Interestingly, in all 3 languages friday is the only exception to that rule - I remember hearing somewhere an explanation 4 that as well, friday was the preparation for the 'resting day' and had a religious significance 2 its name (in arabic friday means 'joining', in hebrew I think it means 'preperation') - does 'roota' mean anything in assyrian? It would be interesting if it did.
I'm no linguistics expert by any means, just random theorizing here.
I'm no linguistics expert by any means, just random theorizing here.