Dienstag

== German == === Etymology === Spread via the Lower Rhineland from Middle Low German dingesdach, dinsdach and Middle Dutch dinsendach (both with variants), and gradually replaced Middle High German ziestac and other High German forms like Alemannic German Zischtig or Bavarian Ertag. Only since the second half of the 17th. century is the modern form in common Script usage. Probably from Proto-Germanic *þingas-dagaz (“Day of Thingsus”), from *þingą + *dagaz. Thingsus is the attested Latin name of a Germanic god who may or may not be the same as Tiw. Further particulars unsettled. Another theory is that it is the “Day of the Thing (“historic Germanic council”)”. Dienstag is cognate with Dutch dinsdag and Luxembourgish Dënschdeg. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdiːnsˌtaːk/ (standard) IPA(key): /ˈdiːnsˌtax/ (northern Germany and parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈdiːnsˌtaːx/ (parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial) Homophone: Diensttag (except possibly in very careful speech) === Noun === Dienstag m (strong, genitive Dienstages or Dienstags, plural Dienstage) Tuesday ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Dienstagabend dienstäglich dienstags === See also === Ertag, Ergetag Ziestag days of the week: Tage der Woche (appendix): Montag · Dienstag · Mittwoch · Donnerstag · Freitag · Samstag/Sonnabend · Sonntag [edit] === Further reading === “Dienstag” in Duden online “Dienstag”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)