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The German Mittwoch, the Low German Middeweek, the miðviku-in Icelandic miðvikudagur and the Finnish keskiviikko all mean "mid-week". Thursday: Old English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]), meaning ' Þunor 's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor.
Samhain (/ ˈ s ɑː w ɪ n / SAH-win, / ˈ s aʊ ɪ n / SOW-in, Irish: [ˈsˠəunʲ], Scottish Gaelic: [ˈs̪ãũ.ɪɲ]) or Sauin (Manx: [ˈsoːɪnʲ]) is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. [1]
In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French horn. In English cor anglais refers to a completely different musical instrument.
The English word week comes from the Old English wice, ultimately from a Common Germanic *wikōn-, from a root *wik-"turn, move, change". The Germanic word probably had a wider meaning prior to the adoption of the Roman calendar, perhaps "succession series", as suggested by Gothic wikō translating taxis "order" in Luke 1:8.
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La Semaine Sainte is an historical novel by French writer Louis Aragon published in 1958. It sold over 100,000 copies. It sold over 100,000 copies. An English translation by Haakon Chevalier was published in 1961 under the title Holy Week by Hamish Hamilton, London, to mixed reviews:
Une semaine de bonté ("A Week of Kindness") is a collage novel and artist's book by Max Ernst, first published in 1934. It comprises 182 images created by cutting up and re-organizing illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias and novels.
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