Editing Thursday (section)

===Thunor's day===
The name is derived from [[Old English]] ''þunresdæg'' and [[Middle English]] ''Thuresday''. It was named after the Old English god ''Thunor''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Thursday |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref> ''Thunor'' and ''Thor'' are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, *''[[Thunraz]]'', equivalent to [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] in the ''[[interpretatio romana]]''.

In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], who was the god of sky and thunder.  In Latin, the day was known as ''Iovis Dies'', "Jupiter's Day". In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was ''Iovis''/''Jovis'' and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: [[Italian language|Italian]] ''giovedì'', [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''jueves'', [[French language|French]] ''jeudi'', [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]] jòvia, [[Catalan language|Catalan]] ''dijous'', [[Galician language|Galician]] ''xoves'' and [[Romanian language|Romanian]] ''joi''. This is also reflected in the [[p-Celtic]] [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''dydd Iau''.

The [[astrological symbols|astrological]] and [[astronomical symbols|astronomical]] [[Jupiter (astrology)|sign of the planet Jupiter]] (♃ [[File:Jupiter symbol (fixed width).svg|16px|Jupiter]]) is sometimes used to represent Thursday.

Most Germanic languages name the day after the Germanic thunder god: ''Torsdag'' in [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], and [[Swedish language|Swedish]], ''Hósdagur''/''Tórsdagur'' in [[Faroese language|Faroese]], ''Donnerstag'' in [[German language|German]]  or ''Donderdag'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]]. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic ([[Uralic languages|Uralic]]) languages, uses the borrowing "Torstai" and "Duorastat". In the extinct [[Polabian language|Polabian]] Slavic language, it was ''perundan'', [[Perun]] being the Slavic equivalent of Thor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=db7iuvTX1bkC&q=perundan+polabian&pg=PA6 |title=Selected writings: Comparative Slavic studies – Roman Jakobson – Google Books |isbn=978-3-11-010617-6 |access-date=6 August 2012|last1=Jakobson |first1=Roman |year=1962 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}</ref>