dæg

day

Forms

dæg
day — English form after the final Old English consonant developed into a y sound.

Proto-Germanic *dagaz, ‘day’; its deeper ancestry is disputed.

The word can refer to daylight or to a complete cycle of day and night.

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noun

The day between Sunday and Tuesday.

Etymology

The inherited day name means moon’s day. It preserves the traditional association between this weekday and the Moon.