tirsdag

From Old Norse tý(r)sdagr, borrowed from Old Saxon *tiuwesdag or Old Frisian tīesdei, from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag, cognate with English Tuesday.

A compound of Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz (“Tyr”) + *dagaz (“day”), a calque of Latin diēs Mārtis (literally “day of Mars”), which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἡμέρα Ἄρεως (hēméra Áreōs, literally “day of Ares”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɐ̯ˀsda/, [ˈtsʰiɒ̯̽ˀsd̥æ]
• Rhymes: -a

tirsdag c (singular definite tirsdagen, plural indefinite tirsdage)

1. Tuesday

(days of the week) ugedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag ^{(Category: da:Days of the week)}

From Danish tirsdag, from Old Norse týsdagr, týrsdagr, from Týr (“Tyr”) and dagr (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag, a calque of Latin dies Martis.

tirsdag m (definite singular tirsdagen, indefinite plural tirsdager, definite plural tirsdagene)

1. Tuesday

• tysdag (Nynorsk)

(days of the week) ukedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag ^{(Category: nb:Days of the week)}

• “tirsdag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.