Thursday "xoves" and Romanian "joi". This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh "dydd Iau". The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: "Torsdag" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, "Hósdagur"/"Tórsdagur" in Faroese, "Donnerstag" in German or "Donderdag" in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing "Torstai" and "Duorastat". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was "perundan", Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. There
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