'Friday' comes from Old English 'Frīġedæġ', literally "day of Frīġ", the Germanic goddess of love.
'Frīġedæġ' stemmed from West Germanic *Frījā dag, a loan translation of Latin 'Veneris diēs' (which became 'venerdì' in Italian, 'vendredi' in French, and 'viernes' in Spanish). The West Germanic peoples equated the Roman goddess Venus with their *Frīju.
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