Wednesday, the fourth day of the week, the Dies Mercurii of the Romans, the Mittwoch ('mid-week') of the modern Germans. The Anglo-Saxon form was Wōdnes dæg; the Dutch, Woensdag; Swedish and Danish, Onsdag.
Wednesday
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 595
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