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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are these representing days of the week or ordinal numbers? These are all cognates in Spanish but I don't see the connection

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Week days in Portuguese, start in Sunday goes to Saturday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So why do you use numbers? Domingo and sábado make sense as they're the same in Spanish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because catholicism, the roman language names came from pagan gods, and the Portuguese wanted to distance from that. Sunday and Saturday keep their romance name because it had catholic/Jewish religious origin already.