Montag German · revision 35039

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=calque, compound|attested=c. 1000, Notker|origins=la diēs Lūnae}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈmoːnˌtaːk/, /ˈmoːnˌtax/, /ˈmoːnˌtaːx/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Montag''' ''m'' (genitive Montages or Montags, plural Montage)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|mōntac]], [[inh|goh|mānetag]], [[inh|gmw-pro|*Mānini dag|t=day of the moon]], a loan translation [[der|la|diēs Lūnae|t=day of the Moon (goddess Luna)]], which was itself modelled on [[grc|ἡμέρα Σελήνης|tr=hēméra Selḗnēs|t=day of Selene]].^(Kluge 2011|633)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Wiktionary) The same rendering is [[ang|mōnandæg]] and [[non|mánadagr]], and today [[nl|maandag]], [[en|Monday]] and [[sv|måndag]].^(Kluge 2011|633)^(Pfeifer 1993) The Duden dates the loan translation to the 4th century, when the Germanic peoples took over the Roman week.^(Duden 7 2020)

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+ The first part keeps the old form of [[Mond]] without the final dental, Old High German [[m|goh|māno]].^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Adelung 1793)^(Wahrig Herkunftswörterbuch)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The word is first recorded in Notker, around 1000, as ''mānetag'' rendering the Latin ''secunda sabbati'', the second day of the week.^(DWB|12, 2514)^(Köbler AHD) Kluge dates the first record to the 11th century.^(Kluge 2011|633)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Monday is the second day of a week counted from Sunday, but as the first working day it was also taken as the first day: Maaler's dictionary calls it the first day of the week.^(DWB|12, 2514) In some trades the journeymen kept Monday for themselves, as a Hamburg guild rule of 1458 shows, and craftsmen in general came to treat it as a continuation of Sunday's holiday.^(DWB|12, 2514) From this comes the ''blauer Montag'', a Monday taken off without good reason: Adelung connects it with the Monday before Lent, when churches in parts of southern Germany were decorated in blue, and the Duden with the liturgical colour of that day.^(Adelung 1793)^(Duden GWDS 1999) An earlier name for it was ''guter Montag''.^(Paul 2002)^(Adelung 1793)

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+ Southern dialects keep umlauted and reduced forms: Bavarian ''mæntag'', Tyrolean ''möntig'', Swabian ''mentig'', Swiss ''mæntig''.^(DWB|12, 2514)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1000 – Notker writes ''mānetag''.^(DWB|12, 2514)^(Köbler AHD)

+ * c. 1150 – Middle High German ''māntac'' in the ''Kaiserchronik''.^(Köbler MHD)

+ * 1458 – A Hamburg guild rule gives the crossbow-makers' journeymen every Monday free.^(DWB|12, 2514)

+ * 1793 – Adelung explains the ''blauer Montag''.^(Adelung 1793)

+ * 19th century – ''Rosenmontag'' appears.^(Kluge 2011|773)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Monday]], the first day of the calendar [[m|en|week]], between Sunday and Tuesday.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)

+ # In ''blauer Montag'' ''(colloquial)'': a Monday on which someone stays away from work without good reason.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Rosenmontag]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Mond]]

+ * [[Tag]]

+ * [[en|Monday]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}