Tuesday
(ˈtjuːzdeɪ)
Forms: α. 1–2 Tiwesdæᵹ, 3 Tiwesday, -dai, Tywesdaiȝ, 3–5 Tywesday, 4 Tues-, Tewisdai, 4–6 Twysday, 5 Tywys-, Tyvys-, Tewys-, Towes-, 5–6 Tewisday, 6 Tewes-, Tuis-, Twis-, Teyus-, Teudins-, Tewsday, 6–7 Twesdaie, 7 Twesday 6– Tuesday. β. 3 Tisdæi, -dei, 4 Tisday; Sc. 4–6 Tȳsday, 5–9 Tyesday, 6–7 Tyisday, 8 Tiseday.
[OE. T{iacu}wesdæᵹ; = OFris. tîes-, tîsdei, -di; OHG. zîestag, MHG. zîstag (Ger. dial. zîstig); ON. t{yacu}sdagr, t{yacu}rsdagr (Norw. tys-, tisdag, Sw. and early Da. tisdag, Da. tirsdag, ME. and Sc. tīesdæi, tȳsday); f. genitive of OE. T{iacu}w = ON. T{yacu}r, OHG. Zîo, name of an ancient Teutonic deity, identified with the Roman Mars; whence T{iacu}wesdæᵹ, etc., rendering late L. dies Martis, It. martedì, F. Mardi. T{yacu}r, T{iacu}w:—OTeut. *Tîwaz was cognate with L. deus, Gr. genit. διός, OIr. dia, cf. Skr. dyāus.
Another form appears in MLG. dînstag, whence mod.Ger. Dienstag (Swab. zienstig, zeinstig), Du. Dinsdag, MDu. Ding(e)stag, dinse(n)dach, of which the first component appears to be ding, þing, ‘public assembly’, but is thought to be Thinxus, a synonym of the name of the war-god preserved in a Latin inscription.]
The third day of the week.
| c 1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 321 Tiwesdæᵹes of martie. a 1123 O.E. Chron. an. 1104 On þam Tiwæs dæᵹe þær æfter. c 1205 Lay. 13936 Þene Sunne heo ȝiuen sonedæi, Monenen..monedæi, Tidea heo ȝeuen tisdæi [c 1275 (l. 13924) tisdei]. c 1290 Beket 1147 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 139 An alle soulene dai, þene tywesdaiȝ [v.r. Tuesdai]. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 734 Of witsone owke þe twysday. 1375 Barbour Bruce xv. 101 Quhill the tysday in pask-owk. c 1450 Merlin xiv. 205 It be-fill on a tewisday. a 1500 Bale's Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 143 Þis was upon a towesday. 1530 Palsgr. 178 Mardy, tuesday. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. ii. Wks. 1846 I. 350 The nixt day..(whiche was Tyisday, the 13 of Junij). 1587 F. James in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 199 From Twesdaie till Satterdaie. 1607 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 729/1 Upon Tyisday befoir the feist of Pasche. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor ii. iv, I shall be married a Tuesday next. 17.. Runaway Bride in Herd Coll. Sc. Poems (1776) II. 87 The bridal-day was set, On Tiseday for to be. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xviii, We must have a party... Shall I say Tuesday fortnight? 1912 C. Murray in The Odd Volume 21 A towmond come Tyesday, the lassies been wad. |
| attrib. 1473 J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 21 Kynge Henry..was putt to dethe..on a tywesday nyght. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 40 A Purse of Gold most resolutely snatch'd on Monday night, and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning. 1622 Boys Wks. 787 A Tuesday breakfast..a Fridayes drinking. |